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Undertoad · 05-09-2005, 08:45 AM

And yet this country's experience with media ownership laws, which existed here for many decades and were strictly enforced, is that they produced a system in which 90% of journalists are self-described Democrats (there's your monoculture) and where CBS News could not admit to the truth when it leaped up and bit them straight on the ass.

Everyone has biases. The reason blogs are popular is that this is finally admitted flat-out, after which it's suddenly possible to have real conversations. Blogs convert news into conversations.

I've found that the different edges produce their share of truths, and if you read all sides you can determine what's really happening with a clearer narrative than before. LGF versus Daily Kos, both produce great information after you take their bias into account, followed by lousy monoculture conversations. (Our conversations here are better, because we have different agendas; this is the strength of the Cellar, because some of us think others of us are asses and that's what it is in real life!)

05-09-2005, 08:45 AM	#21
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	And yet this country's experience with media ownership laws, which existed here for many decades and were strictly enforced, is that they produced a system in which 90% of journalists are self-described Democrats (there's your monoculture) and where CBS News could not admit to the truth when it leaped up and bit them straight on the ass. Everyone has biases. The reason blogs are popular is that this is finally admitted flat-out, after which it's suddenly possible to have real conversations. Blogs convert news into conversations. I've found that the different edges produce their share of truths, and if you read all sides you can determine what's really happening with a clearer narrative than before. LGF versus Daily Kos, both produce great information after you take their bias into account, followed by lousy monoculture conversations. (Our conversations here are better, because we have different agendas; this is the strength of the Cellar, because some of us think others of us are asses and that's what it is in real life!)