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Beware Internet myths

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I am at best 50/50 on agreeing with your past editorial opinions, but your editorial on Friday, Jan. 1, was, in my opinion, spot on. I have three of your four suggestions (I can’t vouch for truthorfiction.com) stored in my “research” folder and use them daily. I rarely get “junk” mail from the jerks that send this patently untrue information out (“you have to read this,” or, “this is true – it happened to me”), but I see them being referenced and discredited every day on the sites you mentioned.

When folks accept the usually false and inflammatory comments from Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and other talking heads without understanding that they are entertainers at best and charlatans at worst and don’t go to the simple yet necessary effort to verify the veracity of their comments, then we, as a country, will continue down this superpartisan path that we are on that leads nowhere.

Barry Cross

Spokane

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