Bias
I read slashdot.org on a daily basis, and even though I don't agree with some of the more heavy-handed bias to their story selection, I find it informative and interesting more often than not.
Having said that, today a story was posted that dripped of such heavy bias that it nearly made me sick. The thing is, it's not the story that was slanted, it was the "comment" that accompanied the submission. Luckily, the slashdot moderation system tends to self-correct the worst offenses, and many (in fact most) of the responses to the story thankfully addressed this and did so with humor.
I know it's unrealistic to expect information on the internet from non-traditional journalistic sources to avoid bias, but that doesn't mean I have to like it when it crops up.
Comments
That was pretty mild. I've seen much worse on Fark.com.
On alt.politics the other day(admittedly not news source by any stretch), someone posted an AP news article from the New York Times, while posting a nearly point-by-point refutation of the entire article. The humorous part was that the story was about international opinion polls! So he's basically raving about how everyone's opinions are wrong. Everyone! I just had to laugh.
Posted by: Alphax | March 17, 2004 02:52 PM