[Jim Robinson]

"Which raises a second way that blogs aren't so different from the MSM: Both choose what to cover and how. This power to set the agenda and frame the story is exactly what bothers most critics of the mainstream news, and many blogs' very reason-for-being is to critique these decisions. Precisely because they are not bound by any claims to objectivity, most bloggers spend their time zeroing in on a couple of stories or story angles they think the MSM are ignoring, suppressing or skewing. Consequently, the world-according-to-the-blogs is a very skewed place, indeed. 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."

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

Top blogs like FR are not fair and balanced.

Guess we ought to give up the "power to set the agenda and frame the story" to others.

What do you think?

[GretchenM]

Looks like Tom DeLay finagled some really fancy political stuff with all that cash he "sent" to DeeCee:

as last week's mishmash of news about Harriet Miers, Iraq's vote on its constitution, Hurricane Wilma's gathering force, and the arrest and booking of Sen. Tom DeLay ...

[tubebender]

Marking...

[Fierce Allegiance]

Guess we ought to give up the "power to set the agenda and frame the story" to others.

Looks like your invention is working as designed, sir. Thank you!

[Windsong]

Top blogs like FR are not fair and balanced.

Liberals get zotted here when they post articles. DU does the same to Conservatives.

About as biased and "unbalanced" as one can get.

[FormerACLUmember]

Free Republic is simply the humble 21st equivalent of this:

And this:

[FormerACLUmember]

Free Republic is simply the humble 21st Century equivalent of this:

And this:

[The Shrew]

Congratulations Jim,

You run one of the nation's premier websites.

IT -

PING!

Regards,

TS

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

What do you think? “They're dead, Jim.” “Worse than that Spock, you long-eared inhuman hobgoblin, they have no brain!”

[tubebender]

Most of the writings of the author seem to be in Public Health even though she is listed as Prof of Political Science?

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!

[sweetliberty]

When did FR become a blog?

[gpapa]

It's Bush's fault.

[SpookBrat]

FR is not fair and balanced. "Fair" is for the birds. I'm a proud partisan. :)

[Always Right]

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

Sorry, I was too busy posting how the evil Tom DeLay was viscously attacking the fair and balanced District Attorney Ronnie Earle and falsely accusing District Judge Bob Perkins of being biased just because he donates to a mainstream organization like moveon.org....

[End Times Sentinel]

The great thing about blogs is that there's about four bloggers for each blog reader.  It's not at all a case of the vast majority of people shouting into an empty abyss. 

I myself, am starting a blog on blogging.  I'll call it Bloggy McBlogger.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
it was probably sarcasm)

[Cacique]

BTT 4 L8R