My gripe: Way too much gullibility here on DU. Please, let's see more skepticism!

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33. The one that burns me up is when someone sees what they think is "Hot news" on the Guardian or often

a less reputable source, and feeling the rush of the juicy headline fail to look at a source closer to the scene, like a local TV news or newspaper on the same topic. The knee-jerk reaction runs strong in those and often, especially if it's a southern or western locale the blanket clichés start to fly condemning everyone who lives there at a stroke without realizing that some of us and them are part of the population in opposition: see Georgia, or North Carolina, or Montana based stories for example. Somehow one or two RW assholes means the entire Democratic side of that equation is just as culpable.

The other piece of that is the "off-site" sources have often missed details that matter, or chosen the same shaming attitude towards all and sundry. The explosion in Memphis and the immediate post-bang analysis was one example. The condemnation of North Carolina as a whole rather than the NC GOP over LGBTQ abusive laws passed by a captive legislature, when in 2 elections the entire state tried to rescind those same laws was another. Too often I see this pattern. Basic research only takes a few more clicks. A pause to decide if there might be other questions to ask takes no longer.

If you live in Singapore and the Asia Times or the Straits Times is your local then I have no doubt you might have to look a bit harder than the guy in Cleveland who's just too lazy to see if the Des Moines Register, or the L.A. Times might have a local take on their own stories.