I've had that reaction so many times now that I eventually stopped clicking on any story from there. All they ever do is pander to their readers' preconceptions. With friends like these, we don't need enemies.
An online colleague once coined Japhy's Law. It says: "The facts you really want to be true are those you should be most skeptical of." It should be written on every blog.
Yep. That's my feeling about them in a nutshell--even if they might occasionally find something worth outrage, it's mixed in with so much other noise that I can't take them seriously.
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I've had that reaction so many times now that I eventually stopped clicking on any story from there. All they ever do is pander to their readers' preconceptions. With friends like these, we don't need enemies.
With friends like these, we don't need enemies.
An online colleague once coined Japhy's Law. It says: "The facts you really want to be true are those you should be most skeptical of." It should be written on every blog.
Yep. That's my feeling about them in a nutshell--even if they might occasionally find something worth outrage, it's mixed in with so much other noise that I can't take them seriously.
If you see blogspam like this flag it. It doesn't deserve the traffic.