Until now I had never heard of this website making this an
interesting venture into the world of rumors, which is not particularly my
favorite topic. As I entered Snopes.com I
browsed through the home page and quickly realized this is not a site I would
regularly browse because it just seemed to be a large collection of very few
significant stories and a whole lot of bullshit. Although after a while on the website I did
find a few stories that sparked some interest, particularly one about “420”. I found this to be a cool topic because we
all hear it so much, but no one knows what it means; the article surprisingly seemed
to be very well-written and credible. So
I believe that the writers of this page know what they are doing, a little too
well perhaps. They know what people want
to hear, bullshit. It’s a pretty creative
way to present news, and an interesting idea to incorporate everything found on
social media in their topic selection as well.
As for the evidence of bias, I didn’t come across any during my time on
the website. However the site in general
seems to me like it isn’t completely serious so it would not surprise me if
there were some biased opinions.
Like you I have never heard of this site before. I too did not find much of interest to me on this site and I think it is mostly for entertainment and nothing else. There is a lot of information on this site but nothing that would make me come back to it again. The only thing I did like was the two articles about the missing children and nothing else. Loving news the way I do I found this site to not be useful to me at all.
ReplyDelete