Top blogs often too one-sided [Free Republic and Drudge dwarf all others but are unfair]

The Oregonian ^ | October 23, 2005 | Regina Lawrence

[coloradan]

it's easy to overlook the fact that in some ways political blogs are not so different from or even separate from the MSM they often love to hate.

Not so different? We have hundreds and sometimes thousands of minds on each story, and every point is debatable. But MSM news has one or two reporters, and it's a one-way conduit, from them to us. They are as different as night and day, and the author of the article, an MSM reporter, is whistling past his own graveyard.

[gaijin]

Wasn't it 4 months ago that they came out with some MSM editorial about how grassroots blogs were a threat to the affirmative action common to Lamestream publications? That because a disproportionate number of "bloggers" are whites, that minorities wouldn't BE ABLE TO COMPETE?

I mean, talk about demeaning minorities...!

[Osage Orange]

I'm going to go to Washington and chain myself to the WH fence until folks quit referring to FR as a blog. :)

Naked?

[tiredoflaundry]

This past week, for example, liberal blogs such as Daily Kos waited in breathless anticipation for an announcement of indictments of Bush administration officials in the Valerie Plame affair, while over on the conservative side of the blog aisle, barely a peep could be heard about that story.

[Buck W.]

Of course blogs are biased. Unlike the MSM, they don't claim to be impartial. That's the difference: blogs offer informed choice, the MSM doesn't.

[tiredoflaundry]

No they looked under "Valerie Flame". ;-)

[Osage Orange]

Brake fluid? Does that work?

I've always heard..that most people who drink it regularly can stop anytime they want.

[DTogo]

most bloggers spend their time zeroing in on a couple of stories or story angles they think the MSM are ignoring, suppressing or skewing.

Like all the good and hard work our uniformed defenders are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? Yeah, the MSM is certainly ignoring, suppressing and skewering those stories.

[NormsRevenge]

LOL

Oh please,,even Cindy Shi'ite wouldn't be that bold. :-)

[Mike Darancette]

FR is fair and balanced.

FReepers post news items 'fairly' often and other FReepers on 'balance' mock those news stories.

[Congressman Billybob]

Jim,

I'm sure you noticed the one quote this woman used in her article from the Professor at U Cal Berkeley. The very statistics in this article demonstrate that this professor of the "economics of communication" is dumb as a bag of hammers. Internet surfers are already making, on a daily basis, the kind of searches that will lead them to sources on whatever subjects they seek.

Based on those searches, some sites prosper and others wither on the vine. Do you suppose that the professor is unaware of Google? After all, Google is only seven years old, and academics tend to be behind the curve. LOL.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Reporting on the 2,000th American Death in Iraq"

[kjo]

It's more sour grapes. The kids who used to run the only game in town can't quite get used to the idea that they ain't it anymore. LOL. Too bad.

[wigswest]

After reading the whole article, I'm convinced the reporter has never even looked at FR.

[dighton]

... while over on the conservative side of the blog aisle, barely a peep could be heard about [the Plame] story."

And dead silence about what's her name, Miers.

[reagan_fanatic]

Grrrr.

[kjo]

That's what they said about McCain Feingold; remember how Bush said it was so clearly unconstitutional it didn't matter if he signed it or not. NOT.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not a peep on FR about the Valerie Plame affair? I'm so ashamed.

*snort*

They don't know how to count.

On the 10/21 alone we had no less then 20 stories on la Flame affair.

[tallhappy]

Peppe.

It's ludicrous. It is even one of the featured topics at the top of the main page.

[marmar]

MSM.........be afraid.........be very..very afraid. Funny thing is that they are circling the drain, and they haven't figured it out yet...........LOL

[altura]

I think if we've had barely a peep on Valerie Flame, then we should all get ear plugs in case we have a real 'peep."