Comments on: If You’re A Blog Reader Take A Few Minutes For This

By: Lynx

Lynx — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:12:34 +0000

casualobserver, by bias I mean the spin that comes with the posts, not that they make stuff up. I gave a conservative example but by all means liberals can be blamed for the same sort of thing. I used to read AmericaBLOG but eventually got sick of the “republicans are horned devils!” slant of the thing. Bias in my book is not solely applied to republicans. Bias is saying that Reid “hates the troops” if he says “the war is lost” but defending Limbaugh no matter what kind of crap comes out of his mouth. Most blogs, on either side, usually link to reasonably reputable news sites, but then the commentary they attach to these pieces can be more or less, shall we say, civilized.

TMV has posts that I would define as conservative, others as liberal and many others as centrist, but by “moderate” I understand “you aren’t stupid for disagreeing with me, let’s hear your reasons”

By: casualobserver

casualobserver — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:32:00 +0000

Lynx,

I am interested to know what you specifically attach the word “bias” to?

(This blog, claiming the “moderate” label, I think it fair we accord neither a left assertion nor a right assertion “correct” on its face without corroborating support.)

While my reading of CQ is only of recent vintage, I have read LGF intermittently over the course of 3 years.

If you mean the COMMENTERS there exhibit a tendency to sarcastic and flippant commentary following the posted story, I won’t disagree. However, if “comments following” are to be ascribed to the blog’s owner, then there are numerous archived screen prints that paint Arianna Huffington and Markos “Screw ‘em Kos” with that same brush of “bias”.

If you mean by bias that LGF certainly tends to fill its pages with stories of followers of Muhammed behaving badly…..and not accounts of them behaving nobly or compassionately, I won’t disagree. However, how many times has this blog posted up something about a Republican behaving nobly or compassionately? (I won’t waste anyone’s time by even suggesting that be attempted at HuffPo or Kos.)

Finally, if you are suggesting by “bias” that the lead posts are trumped up, then I do disagree. With hardly ever an exception, there is an imbedded link to the original source of the piece. That reported event may upset your sensibilities, but even if only 50% of those events actually happened, then I will still believe Islamic fundamentalists are one “screwed-up” congregation.

By: Lynx

Lynx — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:14:57 +0000

Interesting survey, though as always happens with a multiple choice survey, sometimes you are forced to answer in ways that aren’t totally accurate. For instance it asks how much you rely on blogs for your news. Well that sort of depends; I come here fully expecting to see news that interests me and will be important, but I don’t consider myself “informed” unless I read the link.

Likewise, how much you trust the accuracy of different media requires a great big “depends”. I can’t just say out of hand that blogs are accurate or not, it really depends on the blog. Usually you can depend on political blogs to be less accurate the more they have a partisan goal. Captains Quarters and Little Green Footballs, despite being both conservative, do NOT have the same credibility. I usually don’t agree with CQ, but the site does not induce me to slack-jawed awe of bias, as LGF does.

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