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Oh I agree with you Richie. Totally. I am probably not as much of a reader as you perhaps, but do digest a number of papers each day, AND I try to mix up the liberal with the conservative.

I have though noticed this filter he talks about. I have searched for a news item perhaps and found myself looking at links that I just thought were not right so went to other sources that I know. I also, as you mentioned have so many newspapers and newssites bookmarked that I dont search much.

I do think it is the tip of a huge problem. As you know, I feel the media is so terrible and on the internet it is almost criminal. It is, in my opinion, the reason that so many posts on here leave me scratching my head wondering where in the world did that come from.

If you believe in aliens at the square, you probably can find a site to reenforce your thoughts.

If you WANT TO AND NEED TO hear only liberal thoughts or conservative thoughts you can feed on those kind of places on the web. I normally ignore some of the more obvious ones because you know what you are going to get, but I find it interesting and sad to go to different sites and have the EXACT SAME story written about, and the facts are different, either by omission to alter or spin, or by actually just not telling the truth. That is why sometimes, and I am sure you can do the same thing, when you hear the party hacks on here saying something, you know EXACTLY where they got the thought and in some cases, you can read word for word (without the required credit required by law).

This media and internet thing really and truly concerns me. People read opinion pieces and take them as fact. "Factual accounts" are "spun" by omissions or in other ways. And the money being spent is awesome.

In any case, I am glad XAVIER posted the link. Everyone should start to pay attention to where they get information and the information that they post and say are true facts. If there was strict enforcement of libel laws on forums like this, many posters would be doing time.