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Thursday, March 10, 2016

WRITER MAKES GOOD POINTS BUT FALLS VICTIM TO HIS OWN INTELLECTUALISM:"Googling Is Believing: Trumping the Informed Citizen" - NYTimes.com

SURE , WE HAVE MORE INFO AT OUR FINGERTIPS but not enough people know how to analyze it contextually. But near the end,the writer mentions AnswersInGenesis.com,suggesting it misleads people. Obviously,he's not a Christian. He analyzes things in his own narrow way just like those he's scoffing at.
"
The problem of course is that having more
information available, even more accurate
information, isn't what is required by the ideal.
What is required is that people actually know
and understand that information, and there
are reasons to think we are no closer to an
informed citizenry understood in that way
than we ever have been. Indeed, we might be
further away..."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2016/03/09/googling-is-believing-trumping-the-informed-citizen/