Quote:Frankly, after reading this "Politics" section for a couple of years, it's hard to tell.  There's so much pure fantasy being published these days, and people lap it up.   It makes me nostalgic for the good old days when we had one source of news: Walter Cronkite.  You got a half hour, and that was it.  We didn't get this fire hose spewing all sorts of nonsense and people having no sense of when they're being intentionally misled. 

I've thought about this very thing the last year or so. I told my husband yesterday it was a much quieter world when we got the news from the 6pm news and newspapers. Now anyone can report the 'news'. Like the aspiring meteorologist guy who was recently arrested in Kentucky for setting a forest fire to report 'news' of the fire on his Facebook page with video and everything. 

 

I remember when the only thing we knew about celebrities was what we read in Teen Beat and those magazines. Now we know stuff we would rather not, whether it comes from them or TMZ. I think the internet is a very useful thing but it gets abused quite regular.

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