Couch Slouch: ; Internet Misinformation: It's More Than Just Sports Stuff

Charleston Gazette › July 13, 2010

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This is the second of two Couch Slouch columns on the Internet. If you missed last week's, you were probably playing poker online or surfing porn sites.

The Internet is the most democratizing technological tool in history. Yet the Internet might be the undoing of democracy: It fans flames of discontent, encourages baseless character attacks and traffics in misinformation.

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Couch Slouch: ; Internet Misinformation: It's More Than Just Sports Stuff

And that's a good day at a sports forum.

Sport, as usual, reflects society at large, and right now we're in a polarizing, poke-your-pal-in-the-eye mood. Everyone's always angry, over a missed a shot, a blown save, a bad call.

In the ol...

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