I’ve often heard that reading community reported news is the best way to get the real picture. No lefty/righty hidden messages and political spin involved. Recently, I got tired of just reading the headlines of one social site, and started browsing both digg and reddit. I came across a headline that looked like the same story, but wasn’t at all portrayed the same way:
Digg: “Digg Shout Out on The Colbert Report!” This linked to a YouTube video from The Colbert Report where the text “Can you digg it?” (or something, the video is gone).
Reddit: “Colbert slams Digg, says college students *in the same room* would rather blog a kid getting tasering than get off their asses and help”
Sadly, the reddit link wasn’t the same video, and the link has been replaced with different videos, but it’s obviously the same clip being referenced. Sure glad I didn’t get a biased opinion about that story!
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