Dale Parfitt wrote:
Actually, it was art who wrote:

I cringe at the idea of the news media filtering out the garbage!

Turns out they don't do very much filtering anymore, Art. It used to
be called verification, and corroboration of sources. At one time the
practice was even considered a journalistic prerequisite. But they
have done away with that formality now for the most part. This
provides us with immediate and unfettered access to mountainous heaps
of garbage printed in newspapers and broadcast on the nightly news -
and which is gleaned in no small part from that irreproachable font of
knowledge and wisdom known as the internet.

Firesign Theater once proclaimed 'Everything You Know is Wrong'.
Thanks to the above it is now possible for that to be literally true;
a fact which evidences itself with greater profusion each election day.

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