Absolute Doubt
Jay Rosen‘s Pressthink features an interesting discussion about a recent New York Times article on some Iraqi bloggers. There was nothing religious about the original article, but the question of what was wrong with it led to a back-and-forth in the comments section distilled by Jay’s precise summary of Times‘ epistemology: “Doubt is genuine. Belief is a brouhaha.”
Jay Rosen‘s Pressthink features an interesting discussion about a recent New York Times article on some Iraqi bloggers. There was nothing religious about the original article, but the question of what was wrong with it led to a back-and-forth in the comments section distilled by Jay’s precise summary of Times‘ epistemology: “Doubt is genuine. Belief is a brouhaha.”