You have to know what to look for
Surfing the internet makes about as much sense as for, say, a biologist to read all the biology journals. You will never learn anything that way. No serious scientist does that. The literature is massive. You get flooded by it. A good scientist is one who knows what to look for, so you disregard tons of stuff and you see a little something somewhere else. The same is true of a good newspaper reader. Whether it’s in print or on the Internet, you have to know what to look for. That requires a knowledge of history , an understanding of the backgrounds, a conception of the way the media functions as filters and interpreters of the world. Then you know what to look for. And the same is true on the Internet.
Noam Chomsky, in: What We Say Goes 152-153.
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