I believe that BOR doesn’t understand the blogosphere, and self proclaimed doesn’t go online that much at all.
A couple days ago on BOR, someone mentioned that he never goes after the conservative websites, I believe this is why we may have seen Kristinn on the show (i could be wrong) just so BOR could take a slap at a conservitive site as well to show balance on his program. He didn’t give Kristinn a chance to explain anything, just wanted to give him a slap.
As stated BOR did say that the left blogs are far worse that what he’s seen on FR. However, he is basing his whole fight against Kos on posts and photos made by single individuals, which in my opion do relay the agenda of their site, so he is right in doing so.
The appearance on BOR by a representive of a right leaning website was solely an attempt by BOR to show he is “fair and balanced.” But he should first do some research before opening his mouth, IMO. If you want to find a derrogatory post on a blog, you’re going to find one. But it is the principle, character, and agenda of the site that is most important.
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Bill O resents the blogosphere- He’s a traditionally trained media personality, and as such has made it clear that he resents viewers being pulled from mainstream media into Blogs and online websites. His annimosity has come through a couple of times towards blogs, and He’s made it clear that he doesn’t think free speech should be allowed on Blogs and feels that there needs to be some sort orf governmental control over what is said on websites- He reiterated that last night when He told Kristinn that he has a moral obligation to hire professional moderators to control the comments on FR. Bill wants to hold the owners of websites responsiblke for comments that get snuck through the ‘security checks’ employed by volunteer moderators who graciously give hteir time and energy scouring hte htousands of daily posts trying to keep a lid on the hate speech that makes it’s way onto the site by people with nothign better to do than spew hate and venom and try to make this site look bad.
One poster said he thought there might have been a post and run shortly before Bill’s hired help scoured this site- That is a very distinct possibility because Bill NEEDED something to show in order to make his case against FR.
Hopefully people are writing in to Bill and explaining the blatantly obvious fact to Bill that while some hate speech might not be uncovered and promptly deleted by FR, that Daily KOS IS a hate site and makes no bones about allowing the most vile rhettoric to remain on their site prominently displayed for everyone to see.
Watch Bill O- and you’ll note that he really is upset over the fact that privately owned sites are getting more ‘viewers’ than his show because he full well knows that blogs and sites like htis aren’t sold out to the capitalist money god and will tell things straight up insteasd of fudging the news in order to make a point like Bill and Fox do.