NRO's "The Corner" discusses Wiki's bias
Posted on 09/15/2009 11:05:46 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
NRO's "The Corner" discusses Wiki's bias
Over at NRO’s “The Corner,” Jay Nordlinger tangentially mentioned Wikipedia’s left-wing bias. (Also read John J. Miller’s excellent article.) What does one get when a biased Internet medium covers biased MSM “journalists”? In one, minor case, the Wikipedia profile of MSNBC’s David Shuster calls him: “a regional Emmy award winning American journalist for NBC News and MSNBC.”
David Shuster filled in for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown Monday. Here are a few of the questions this “journalist” asked about the 9/12 rally of his guest, Clarence Page, in the opening segment alone:
It seemed hard to tell whether this was a rally about recovering the America of 9/12/2001 or America before the repeal of Jim Crow. What are these people really protesting?
These are some of the same folks who during the Bush administration told everyone on the Left that they could love it or leave it. Well, they don’t seem to be packing up to go now. (I guess that counts as a question at MSNBC. – Ed.)
Given how divorced from reality so many of the 9/12, teabag protesters are, should anyone take them seriously?
David Shuster first reported the hoax that Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent on the assumption someone must have checked it out (he hadn’t). This viral episode of journalistic malpractice is recorded on neither Shuster’s nor Palin’s Wikipedia page, although it caused lasting damage to Palin’s image (and all-too-transient damage to Shuster’s). It has slipped down the memory hole, as so many things do at MSNBC.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
Logrolling. Two bogus sources use each other as a reference.
They tried to piss down my leg. I see you let them...
Wikipedia + MSNBC + Google = Bias Cubed.
I was just searching for poll results on late term abortions and found almost nothing on Google. I’m switching to AltaVista, which I hear is run by a FReeper.
Good search results over there on that topic.
Goes to show you - people see something online (Schuster) and assume it has to be true - when it ain’t.
Thats why Middlebury College banned Wiki sources from students’ term papers.
Students assumed that they had the facts, when it turns out that any fool can edit a Wiki page with anything he wants and there is no fact check ...
I bet I could go on there right now and change Obama’s entry to say he is the King of France - and SOME idiot reading it online will believe it !!!
Add google and ya got a trifecta.
Well, Obama is fond of grey poupon....
I think every college has banned using Wiki as a reference
Its more of a circle with MediasMatters thrown in
Well, Obama is fond of grey poupon....
Damn !!! That proves he’s the King of France ...
Gotta go - got some Wiki to do - LOL !!!
I used the evidence presented in court to show the Iraqi government was behind the assassination attempt on Bush senior. i even asked them.. if it isn't credible evidence then why are they still in prison? Wiki's A: "politics"
I laid out a number of attacks the Iraqi government instigated against the US. Each time they had some lame excuse and this one which is really unbelievable.
Too bad you can't integrate AltaVista into Firefox's search widget.
bttt
I beleive the proper spelling in MerdeMatters.
Too bad you can't integrate AltaVista into Firefox's search widget.You're kidding, right? Or is that a windows weakness?
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