I like the way that the internet plays with political campaigners since of integrity. I mean, before now a contender had town hall meetings and shook hands with everyone. The internet has provided a smoke screen that the communications directors for Politian’s can hide behind. The phrase, “well if it is on the internet and a politician said it, well then, it must be true” only had the power because the omniscient world wide web is full of only accurate information, right?
On the positive side or maybe it is entertainment purposes, as voters we can keep update on all of the debates. Working as much as we do we cannot always catch the local news to find out the latest on the campaign trail. The internet provides minute by minute updates of stories whether true or false. It is for us to decide what accurate information is and what is not. Like the “Longtail provides and we decide!”
Maybe to that note, the negative side of the longtail, especially in Policitcs is that there is so much information it is really easy to find someone else who believes what we do, so instead of educating ourselves, we might just settle for someone who agrees with us because it was on the internet, so it must be true! We might not look for a well rounded non-biased answer. Know your sources and your candidates I say.
Looks like Grace found the answer :factcheck.org.
I discovered FactCheck while doing a paper on Political Communications. It really is nearly impossible to sort out the real issues from the hype and then you throw in all the circulating emails that people send that are mostly fairly right out there. Its very funny to me that some people believe anything they read in a forwarded email if it is from a friend even though there are some people who just forward everything they read that seems interesting or inflammatory (as the case may be).
ReplyDeleteThe title of your post is exactly the way some people view the Internet AND the news. But, in order for us to make more informed decisions, we have to do our own research. Most news stations and Internet blogs and some articles, can have some bias one way or another. So, we have to do our "homework" in order to know what's true and what isn't.
ReplyDeleteI don't think because its on the internet its true unless enough research is done on the Internet throughly false info always find its way into things. For awhile I never did Wikipedia articles because now I know anyone can comment and edit the article and the info is false. I'm glad we did the Wikipedia project to learn and understand how Wikipedia works
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