To me, it’s not that the internet is more trustworthy. It’s all about not having to pay for a bunch of crap — ads, lifestyle, arts and leisure, etc. — that I couldn’t care less about. On the net, I can search for the topic I want to read about and then go read it. Simple.

Quote from the article:, “if all Americans were liberals or Democrats, you would be buying newspaper stock.” Yes, bias of the print (and broadcast) media is a significant factor. Denials of bias are ridiculous. Don’t tell me your unbiased, demonstate it!

Another important factor is the constant attacks on persons and beliefs identified as conservative or Republican. Not only is it grossly and obviously an unfair double standard, it is an implicit affront to a significant segment of it’s actual and potential readership. Who wants to buy newspapers or watch news broadcasts and put up with condescension and arrogance.

With the internet it is so easy to sample a variety of views. You can read complete documents. You can watch complete videos and get the complete context of quotes and sound bites. It becomes easy to pick up patterns of stories and fact conveniently ignored by the print and broadcast media.

I actually sample all forms of the media. Anyone getting their info from only one source is not well informed. Every source has a bias, most severely the traditional media.

In short We all need to learn to think for ourselves and quit emoting ourselves into some opinion.

I will never trust the internet…just think about the name Net as in a trap… All those internet cyber-spiders and cookies collecting personal data, reading the files on on your desktop, reading your net favorites titles. The back spydoors embedded within your anti-spy soft-ware. The fact that you MUST accept or else get nothing. :=(

I trust the internet even less now that Obama is in the white house. One of his creepy people want to be able to read our e-mail now. I also think that the web site that require you to sign up with password, etc. is another way that the web site will be able to turn in info to the new ”Führer” in the white house about us. So no, I don’t trust the internet.

Hey Anti you are needed @ the supreme court comment area.

A. Just before coming on the blog, I had copied and pasted a local news article into an e-mail to a friend, along with a link to the Wikipedia page about the nationally known figure who attended.

B. This morning I was curious about how the eastern hemisphere was reporting [or not] the events unfolding in Iran. While I drank my morning coffee, I flipping through entries on Google News to see which countries were represented.

I LOVE the feel of a newspaper on a Sunday morning. I will never be a big fan of Kindle. But sadly, you cannot “search” paper newspapers in the way the Internet has made available to us. I can find news articles about nearly ANYthing I have an interest in. And as Dwight says, sample a wide variety of opinions on the topic.

The nature of newspapers has changed. They are now always a day late and a dollar short. At least in western Washington State the quality of the reporting and writing is terrible. The reporters take the statements of “experts” at face value and never ask the obvious questions.

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Thomas Jefferson