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Making Up Sources and Checking Them Twice

Pia over at Bring it On has some thoughts on using sources and I think she summed it up pretty nicely, blogs are not the places you go to obtain your news, information or facts when writing a piece for your own blog.

They are opinion pieces that might help you find what you are looking for but that's all. I like to equate blogs to everyone sitting around the dinner table talking politics but instead of everyone throwing out unsubstantiated blurbs they now have boat loads of information (i.e. the Internet links) to back their comments up to try and convince you they are right. But that still doesn't stop someone from smacking you in the face with something from the Enquirer and insisting it is fact! At which point you pick up the turkey leg and club them over the head and dinner is over! Well at least that's how it used to play out in my house.

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Do Conservatives Want to Skin Cats?

That's what Cranky is wondering over at Bring It On

I'm driving home from work the other day and listening to a "conservative" radio show. The host and his cohorts were talking about how they hated cats. Callers started calling in and mentioning how they hated cats. It got to the point where they started joking about how to "dispose" of cats in the most graphic of ways. Then it progressed to viewing websites where they actually skinned kitty.

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Self Censoring TV

Over at Bring It On, Pia is wondering why her favorite show is being censored.

Why am I writing my first post for a political blog about something as innocuous as a network TV show?  What’s innocuous about censorship?  When a TV network censors itself so that another network doesn’t look ridiculous, it’s time to begin wondering.  When  Disney owned ABC bows down to Fox, it’s time to take a deep breath, and worry about everything that’s happening in this country now.

Read the rest of here concerns here.