But I read it....

Andrew Keen commenting on Freidman's view that we have canine hearing when it comes to the internet (ie.we only hear what it says about us):

The climax of Friedman's talk focused on the flattening of truth and fiction on the Internet. He told the story of Muslim woman in the Middle East who was against Al Gore because he was Jewish. When he tried to correct her, she refused to believe him:

"But I read it on the Internet," she insisted.

Friedman has got the species right, but the body part wrong. It's not dog's hearing that we've acquired -- but a canine soul. I read it on the Internet has become the equivalent of a dog's faith in their master's voice.

http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/2007/05/but_i_read_it_o.html