5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds

[XemaSab]

An election year is a shit blizzard. Every place you go for news online -- whether it's portal sites like Reddit, or aggregators like Google News or Yahoo! News or RealClearPolitics, or goddamned clips from late night talk shows -- they're all about to get buried under a brown storm of bullshit inflammatory headlines desperate for your click.

This turdstorm of pointless click-bait filler is a problem for anyone who wants to be an informed voter. To learn anything useful, you need to be able to sort through all of the garbage to find the actual information and insight. So let me just tell you right now that you can safely ignore any story if ...


#5. The Headline Contains the Word "Gaffe"


http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-spot-b.s.-political-story-in-under-10-seconds/#ixzz1tX7xEUiT

[KurtNYC]

1. Haven't seen Cracked since the 6th grade

They do politics now? It is good analysis, much better than the cartoons they used to do.

Perhaps next "MAD" will give us 'The Lighter Side of Mormons'

[bbgrunt]

2. good article. Points out how hollow political discussion

has become:

"In the business, they derisively call it "horse race journalism," where the stories focus purely on the "sport" of politics rather than the consequences. A study found that in 1960, about half of the political news stories were about actual policy and the other half were these frivolous "who's winning the game" stories. Today, only 17 percent of stories are about stuff that matters."

[GeorgeGist]

3. Boehner Blasts Obama for ‘Picking Fights’

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/04/29/boehner-blasts-obama-for-picking-fights/