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How to Sell a Shit Sandwich to Useful Idiots

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-trending-on-facebook-not-what-you-think-curators-manipulate-news/

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/8/conservative-ideas-needed-on-campus-as-counterweig/

othershoe1030

othershoe1030

PkrBum wrote:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-trending-on-facebook-not-what-you-think-curators-manipulate-news/

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/8/conservative-ideas-needed-on-campus-as-counterweig/

I agree. This is a bad idea to filter the trending stories on FaceBook because it puts the readers in a bubble of information that doesn't reflect the diversity of thoughts floating around in cyberspace.

I don't get my news from FaceBook but I guess many people do. I don't think they should be spoon fed either liberal or conservative ideas otherwise they will be caught off guard like Karl Rove was on election night when he could not believe the actual results. He had been only looking at a select group of polls and was caught flat footed.

As for the political bent of professors I would like to see history and political science classes presented by a pair of professors each from a different end of the political spectrum. It would be too easy to imagine a student with either conservative or liberal leanings consistently picking classes taught by professors who shared his/her mind set, which would only result in a hardening of views rather than an understanding of the different philosophies.

polecat

polecat

“Any attempt by a neutral and inclusive social media platform to censor or manipulate political discussion is an abuse of trust and inconsistent with the values of an open Internet”

That was Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD). Who today sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding know if recent allegations alleging conservative content has been excluded from Facebook's Trending Topics list are true.

Thune was outraged at the idea a privately owned social media platform and content provider might restrict or promote certain information to its customers based on its owner's bias, political agenda, or bottom line.

So, to to recap the conservative Republican Senator in bed with the cable companies who just last year vocally and vehemently blocked implementation of the FCC's Net Neutrality rules is now upset that social media platforms might be ... not neutral.

Irony 'tis a fickle -- and often hilarious -- bitch.

Floridatexan

Floridatexan

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Floridatexan

Floridatexan


https://www.publicintegrity.org/2008/01/23/5641/false-pretenses

Floridatexan

Floridatexan

othershoe1030

othershoe1030

No kidding FLTX! Excellent. Few remember seeing any coverage of antiwar (Iraq) demonstrations in this country or other countries around the world because the damn corporate media didn't want Americans to see how the idea of an invasion was opposed. We are largely at the mercy of what TPTB want us to think. 1984.

boards of FL

boards of FL

If your sole contribution to this site is a link to an article, if you can't express your own subjective political views in your own words, if you can't provide anything of substance on any topic in your own words...you probably shouldn't be using phrases like "useful idiots".

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