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ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts) Thu Mar 30, 2017, 01:12 PM Mar 2017

Avoiding the echo chamber

I've been on DU since 2004, and am a committed Democrat. Yet listening to NPR one day lately, there was a guy on warning us not to only listen to our side, and get the same message repeated back to us that we want to hear. That made sense to me, but I still don't want to be surfing through RW sites all the time--yuck.

Then he said that Real Clear Politics is a site where you get input from both sides. So that is my new comittment--to read both sides. We will be better equipped to have an intelligent discussion, I think, if we look at the other side, too.

What do you think?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

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Avoiding the echo chamber (Original Post) ginnyinWI Mar 2017 OP

I read there, but overall, I think the site leans right instead of cry baby Mar 2017 #1

If the people on the right say you lean left and the people on the left say you lean right... Binkie The Clown Mar 2017 #2

As a reporter, that was always my goal. Ms. Toad Mar 2017 #3

True wisdom, Binkie. nt cry baby Mar 2017 #4

cry baby

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1. I read there, but overall, I think the site leans right instead of

Reply to ginnyinWI (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 01:20 PM

Mar 2017

being neutral. But you definitely can get opinions there without having to go to RW sites.

I agree with you, it's better to know both sides of an argument.