Talk:S.T.O.P./@comment-72.213.47.137-20130210224454/@comment-1477984-20130211052518

Its good to see people taking a greater interest in the wider world. I am a political junkie myself, and my views has changed and outlook has changed over the years.

If I any advice to give you (and sorry for all the big terms), I highly recommend viewing news sources with a critical eye — especially when political punditry is involved (like radio talk show hosts) — as they ether have a political ideology to sell you, and/or they rely on demagoguery to get people on their side. It is all too easy to get cough-up in their rhetoric, and the resulting 'balkanization' only servers to stifle healthy political discourse — much like the legislative dead-lock in Washington D.C.

I am at a point in my outlook where I'm cynical with TV/cable news media coverage (if they are not political straw-men, then they are corporate straw-men), and outright distrustful of political pundits, who I see as self-absorbed blowhards. The only ones I find reliable, are the ones who turns news coverage into a comedic farce (e.g. The Daily Show), which I see as as awful turn of events.

Well, look luck with knowledge-building efforts.