Posted on 09/08/2011 8:05:21 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Awesome video about the algorhythmic filtering of the internet which biases everything we get to see/know. Check this out:
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Fascinating...it explains so much we suspected.
Good monologue, and he’s spot on.
Worse - I see in my own searches, distortions of truth, and missing data - or rather omitted links that were there, and still are, if called up directly.
It's called lying.
It's called lying.
Yes, and radio talk shows are doing it too. They screen callers and make sure that exactly what the station wants discussed is the subject of conversation, not what the caller might actually like to say. I hear that going on constantly...from Rush Limbaugh, to liberal talk show hosts, to 820 AM here in TX, to Sam and Ed in Austin...to all of them.
Oh, he might be right about Facebook. I don't use it.
But I just compared googling for Libya signed into my normal Google account and from a different browser, not signed in, cookies cleared, on a different IP address, through a different ISP. Same results. And my Google web history on my normal account has over 53,000 searches, so Google ought to have a pretty good idea of my biases by now, if they're doing what the presenter claims. But, obviously, they are not.
Talkers are out to make money. Gulfstreams are expensive. To make money you need a big audience. You don't get a big audience by letting every nutjob who calls in get on the air and waste the talent's and the audience's time. Call screeners like Snerdly perform an essential function.
Oh, and it's the talent, not the station, who decides who gets on the air. It's the talent who makes the show interesting, and if the show is interesting enough to get a big audience, then the talent and the station make gobs of money.
Of course, the whole process annoys liberals because it makes winners of folks they consider unworthy. But libtards are boring snobs, which is why the typically fail at talk radio.
Yes, I understand. On 820, a caller tried to get in a comment about Ron Paul. He was immediately cut off with the lady host saying emphatically that Ron Paul would not be the GOP candidate and didn’t have a prayer. I’m not a huge Ron Paul fan, but that struck me as a bit biased — especially prior to the election (i.e. “Dewey Defeats Truman!”).
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