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Flint · 03-19-2007, 01:14 PM

The funny thing about this idea, that Wikipedia is a biased, Liberal source, is that Wikipedia is a collective repository of knowledge into which all are welcome to make additions. Conservative viewpoints, such as they exist in society, have exactly the same chance of being represented in Wikipedia as any others.

What we have here is a lack of bias being misrepresented as a bias because a certain group of people are resentful that their own bias is not represented.

Furthermore, what Wikipedia represents, on one level, is a toppling of the old standard information model: that message control can be coordinated through a few central sources, IE mass media outlets. In this case, a small group, whose wacky ideas have been over-represented in the past, are finally seeing a realistic balance of ideas, and they don't like it because it exposes them as the fringe group that they are.

Somebody call that waaahmbulance. We're gonna need it more and more frequently, it appears.

03-19-2007, 01:14 PM	#10
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Liberal Bias in Wikipedia The funny thing about this idea, that Wikipedia is a biased, Liberal source, is that Wikipedia is a collective repository of knowledge into which all are welcome to make additions. Conservative viewpoints, such as they exist in society, have exactly the same chance of being represented in Wikipedia as any others. What we have here is a lack of bias being misrepresented as a bias because a certain group of people are resentful that their own bias is not represented. Furthermore, what Wikipedia represents, on one level, is a toppling of the old standard information model: that message control can be coordinated through a few central sources, IE mass media outlets. In this case, a small group, whose wacky ideas have been over-represented in the past, are finally seeing a realistic balance of ideas, and they don't like it because it exposes them as the fringe group that they are. Somebody call that waaahmbulance. We're gonna need it more and more frequently, it appears. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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