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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 25, 2022 12:40:12 GMT -5
I don't know a thing about the CIS organization. It seemed legit. If I entered keywords like immigration, deportations, 2022, Biden etc in Bing, Google, Yahoo or other search engines tons of sites come up. I have no way of knowing what their political leanings are. There's not a banner or disclaimer saying their writings are right wing or left wing somewhere on the page or story.
As I've said before I don't have any college degrees. You probably have a Masters or PHD in Political Science so you can spend all day digesting the nuances of news stories and events. I on the other hand work all day and just get 30-60 second evening news stories on ABC, CBS, NBC etc who's analysis if any is not indepth at best.
Perhaps for all of us you could compile and post a complete master list of all the internet sites, national newspapers, radio and TV stations, organizations, think tanks, blogs etc and their political leanings so we would be informed up front first and make our own judgement of the info.
It felt off to me because the predictions did not link back to articles explaining their reasoning. Just sound bites with little to under pin them. After DJ's post - I googled Center for Immigration Studies and got more info. Because of my search history compared to yours, I'm not sure you would get the results to evaluate them on the first or second pages. Most search engines are partisan by design based on what they believe you want to see, not what should float to the top for everyone. Just the other day I tried to search a certain shoe manufacturer and their website was not on the first two pages of results. Just a bunch of stores that carried the brand. In the past it usually showed up on page one of results even if it was in the middle of the page. it's true. the disaster of the internet in terms of politics is that it feeds our natural biases. so we have to FIGHT THAT, by going to sites that are NOT on the first page, and reading what they have to say. yes, it takes more effort. i think that clicking on page 2 is actually not hard. maybe takes 5 seconds more, at most. you can spare 5 seconds to get your shit straight, people.
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