NYT Review of Gore's The Assault on Reason
Umm - why is the promotion on the web of disinformation any worse, or different than it's promotion by the current administration, or, for that matter, the mainstream media?Found in today's NYT review of Gore's Assault on Reason:
As for his conviction that the Internet can help re-establish “an open communications environment in which the conversation of democracy can flourish,” it plays down the more troubling aspects of the Web, like its promotion of rumor and misinformation alongside real information, and its tendency to fuel polarizing, partisan warfare.Sorry to see that the Times' writer did not catch his or her own faulty logic, especially when the writer had already talked about the disinformation disseminated by the administration in the run-up to the Iraq war.
2007-05-22 03:43:16
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