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Originally Posted by Fazor
The internet has some weird way of makeing people get worked up over the littlest things.
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I half-caught US Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and his Republican counterpart jointly addressing the mumble press club or some such, taking Q&A, and when they were asked about the power of the Internet, one of them -- I think Dean -- praised it as a
community, where people communicated, to contrast it with the traditional top-down one-way media well understood by their audience.
He quickly threw in that teachers need to teach
critical thinking skills because there are more than a few non-facts available on the Internet. Opposite-party counterpart me-too'd the sentiment. It's unanimous. Thinking is good.