Life in the echo chamber is like a group of cool kids skipping class to go do something... cool while one of them stays behind and takes notes for them all to share later. Of course, the stay-behind is so busy daydreaming about what her friends are doing that she never really pays attention to what's said, doesn't have the capacity to understand it, and decides that it doesn't really fit what she knows to be the truth. For any or all of these reasons, she and her group believe it as gospel and base all of their resulting beliefs and ideas on a badly tainted resource.
From there, the malformed idea takes on a life of its own and soon enough, there's a large following with poisoned minds insisting that their way is not only the right way, but also the only way. Because thinking about its veracity is too difficult or too painful, the find it easier to shout their arguments, ignore logical arguments with which they disagree, and when all else fails, throw food.
The New York Times, quoting the radical Islamic organization CAIR, has lambasted the NYPD for using the critically-acclaimed documentary The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America in counterterrorism training. The Times published two news articles (First, Second), an editorial entitled "Hateful Film" and a virulently anti-NYPD OP-ED all within a week. The articles were filled with inaccuracies and definitely had a pro-CAIR, anti-NYPD slant.
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Do you mean the NYT that's losing money/readers hand over fist? Such a shame. The sheep are bolting the pasture.
Oh, and it's a miracle I was able to keep reading after the "It's not about ____" lecture.
Well, full disclosure, you had a little help finding that.
Oh, yes, right ... I probably never would have noticed it had you not warned me it was there.
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