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"Il est beau comme la retractilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces [...] et surtout, comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie !" -- Lautréamont
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"Il est beau comme la retractilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces [...] et surtout, comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie !" -- Lautréamont
Wednesday October 29, 2003
09:24 PM
Drives them nuts
Dear Log,
«Ancient wisdom says that people hear only what they want to hear. But that is so yesterday. Now everywhere you turn, people are hearing only what they don't want to hear, the stuff that sickens them, makes them angry and, frankly, drives them nuts.»
--"Who Sells Darkness? : The media hasn't filtered out what good news there is in Iraq"
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news filtering considered harmful (Score:1)
Because I know that right alongside me in those miles of fiber optic cables, some other person is reading their favorite news sites and getting equally alarmed -- in totally opposite ways.
Given the huge firehose of info it's distressingly easy to grep out stuff that fits your own neuroses. I *think* my