John Durham Investigation Ends

[Dill]

(05-17-2023, 12:59 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: Double fail. 

Unless you don't know the definition of the word "introduced."

Telling that you'd double down when you're wrong. I was wrong an admitted as much in an earlier post. You should try it. Everyone should try it. Im convinced half of the problems with modern discourse are peoples inability to admit being wrong. And worse, rather than do so they try to spin and redefine in an effort to make themselves right...which only makes them more wrong. 

Anyhoo...You've predictably continued to sidetrack and derail the thread with more word salads about something that was never intended when the thread was started. Arguing about facts and opinions is not what it is about. Bels and I got sidetracked, both said what we had to say, and moved on so that the thread could resume without others having to sift through off-topic posts. Kudos to both of us. 

No one has to "sift through" any post he doesn't want to read.

Sure, I shouldn't have said you "introduced" the media literacy topic--that was a framing error for sure, given that may main point was that you introduced a crude distinction between "fact" and "opinion" in reporting,

--not a "side track" given that understanding how "opinion" is built into the selection of facts is important to evaluation of gov. reports and political reporting, along side other contextual factors--and should be important to voters as well. How people regard that fact/opinion distinction may well explain why responses to the Durham Report break different ways, some accepting it at face value while others are more critical and contextual.

If my "word salad" has inclined at least two forum readers to see how politicians and propagandists might welcome readers who trust that facts can come before "opinions" in gov. reports, then I've done about as well as I could here. 

THAT is what I am "doubling down on," and what you want to put behind you as quickly as possible,

to "get back on topic" and away from "spin."