Cyberpolarization over Hate Speech Occurs within One Church
www.ucc.org
I‘ve been accused by someone within my denomination of assaulting the first amendment. He describes activities I’ve had a major role in as a “full-fledged assault on conservative media” – “an organized campaign . . . a carefully planned, well-funded systematic assault on talk radio and Fox News that involves at least seven major liberal American religious denominations.”
I’ve never seen myself as a part of something like that and I’ve never been described that way before. It brings home the talk about cyberpolarization — how we tend to use media that reinforces our own viewpoints and therefore are not aware of misinformation and are not sensitive to insults and accusations lacking objectivity and logic.
Jeffrey Lord (From The American Spectator)
And it gives me a lens from which to see how it works. It occurs to me that others might be interested in that view. So I’m going to first…
