- Original Poster
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I'd like to start a thread to collect comments I happened to come across over the web.
These comments have all one thing in common: they are so partisan that who publishes it (yes, I'm looking at you BBC News) should be heavily chastised for even considering them newsworthy.
Examples
If the business I own had some affinity with UKBF, then if I said "There is enormous value in being part of an online community to exchange views, provide support and unbiased advice to others" nobody should feel surprised that I said that, should they.
Likewise, nobody should feel surprised if Bill Gates, when he was Microsoft's CEO, had said something like "Everyone should own a PC", or if the president of the National Rifle Association (a very powerful gun lobby in the US) said "The answer to gun violence is, more people should own a gun".
In other words, it is so blatantly obvious that someone who has a vested interest in something would speak favourably about it, that it comes natural to ask: "Am I missing something, or are we really headed towards idiocracy?"
These comments have all one thing in common: they are so partisan that who publishes it (yes, I'm looking at you BBC News) should be heavily chastised for even considering them newsworthy.
Examples
If the business I own had some affinity with UKBF, then if I said "There is enormous value in being part of an online community to exchange views, provide support and unbiased advice to others" nobody should feel surprised that I said that, should they.
Likewise, nobody should feel surprised if Bill Gates, when he was Microsoft's CEO, had said something like "Everyone should own a PC", or if the president of the National Rifle Association (a very powerful gun lobby in the US) said "The answer to gun violence is, more people should own a gun".
In other words, it is so blatantly obvious that someone who has a vested interest in something would speak favourably about it, that it comes natural to ask: "Am I missing something, or are we really headed towards idiocracy?"
