This is a Test!
Are you a Glenn Beck or a Keith Olbermann?
I showed you on the Web page, Hand of Hope, how Truth or Fiction and Snopes had handled the same photographer's viewpoint on his photo of the same name. One of the sites printed the facts on the photographer's opinion, advising you of his reaction to someone's quote, while the other judged the photographer's opinion, telling you how you should believe.
To this end and clicking on the two links below for a new search, which content of the two do you see as truth and which do you see as spin or propaganda for the same story?
This comparison is very important. It is a view into either how you were raised or how you were reprogrammed by events or an advanced education. In the end in making an overall opinion about the two results, will you turn out to be an independent thinker or will you go the safer road, following the crowd and its demand of you for allegiance to political correctness?
Either you are a Glenn Beck or a Keith Olbermann. Take the test to find out by clicking each of the two links below. Decide while one best describes the truer story of the same incident. Then continue reading below.
Truth or Fiction Snopes
You will note that these two fact-finding sites also showed their stripes in the selection of a title. Truth or Fiction titled their page, "The Presidential Desk," while Snopes titled their's, "Desk Job." __________________________________________
Which Search Engine was the fairest in our search for the truth?
Search engines seemed to be programmed differently to find the same information. For instance if I typed in Google, "President Obama With His Shoes on the Desk," Snopes came up as the first search result. Truth or Fiction was no where to be found, even past six pages.
To find the Truth or Fiction page on top, I had to type in Google, "truth or fiction george bush shoes on desk white house."
For Yahoo's All the Web, Truth or Fiction couldn't be found in either word search!
But to find both Truth or Fiction and Snopes at the top of Google's search engine page, all I needed to do was to change the search word "shoes" to "feet" so it read, "President Obama With His Feet on the Desk." The same was then true for Yahoo's search engine.
However for Bing's search engine, for the words "President Obama With His Feet on the Desk," only Snopes came up but you had to scroll down to find it while Truth or Fiction was not to be found after six pages. Changing "feet" to "shoes" brought Huffington Post up on page one and Hillary Clinton's origin, MediaMatters on page two, with neither Snopes or Truth or Fiction to be found. But for the words "truth or fiction george bush shoes on desk white house," Bing only brought up Truth or Fiction's site. But the Web page was for Bill Clinton, not Barack Obama.
So in the end, Google seemed the fairest to the intend of the searcher, while the word "shoes" or "feet" in the same sentence was critical to the results. However, it was the content of Truth or Fiction and Snopes that told the real story, and why you can be dragged by your nose down a street you never intended to be on.
Glenn Beck was correct in telling you to do you own searches. But now you know to do them knowing there are Internet wolves out there that want you to join them for dinner, stealing your right to know by coloring the truth. It is what liberal newspapers and television networks attempt to do all the time and have done so for decades. I haven't watched CBS, NBC, or ABC evening news for probably six years now, not wanting to mix up their personal spin with the truth I have discovered elsewhere.
As a side note, of the over 30 sites I check for conservative news items for my Web site's homepage not one of them is FOX News and the last is Drudge.
You see with this test there is truth in the the old saying, you are what you [allow yourself to] eat!
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