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> It is nigh impossible to get a viewer of CNN to stop viewing CNN and watch FOX instead. And it is an equally sysiphean task to get a FOX viewer to stop watchi
by jacobolus 7y ago
> It is nigh impossible to get a viewer of CNN to stop viewing CNN and watch FOX instead. And it is an equally sysiphean task to get a FOX viewer to stop watching FOX and watch CNN full time instead.
Both CNN and FOX are terrible sources, mostly consisting of bloviating pundits with very scarce factual content. Both come with heavily pro-corporate pro-military pro-US-government viewpoints. The main difference is that CNN has at least some basic standards of journalistic ethics, and wasn’t explicitly set up to be one political party’s propaganda arm. But if someone wants to learn the basics about the daily news, watching CNN is also not a very effective use of time.
> studying history by studying primary sources has fallen out of favor
What exactly do you think happens in undergraduate history classes? What do you think historians spend their time doing? The historians I know all but live in archives and libraries.
> I mean, hey, it's an Easter BUNNY out hunting for eggs.
Yes, both hares and eggs are fertility symbols. But I’m not sure what your point is exactly. Having a hare bring decorated eggs to children isn’t especially pornographic.
- bilbo0s 7y ago>Having a hare bring decorated eggs to children isn’t especially pornographic That's not how many of the original pagan celebrations worked. That is the sanitized Christian replacement though. I guess I should have made that more clear.
- jacobolus 7y agoSo how did the “original” pagan spring equinox celebration work? What was the connection to hares bringing eggs? You’re being very cagey here. Just say what you mean.