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Conservative (& libertarian) Bloggers less biased than MSM news “portals”

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For the past three years or so, I have had two Internet main portals (as well as great variety of minor ones) for getting the news. And I realized (yet again) today that the more mainstream of the two, Yahoo!’s homepage, was more biased than the one with a more partisan (if libertarian-conservative could be called partisan) edge.  Over at Instapundit, at least Glenn Reynolds regularly links pieces critical of Republicans.

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 It seems that nearly every headline related to the Iraq War on Yahoo!‘s homepage offers bad news about the situation there.  If there is a critical article on McCain somewhere anywhere, Yahoo! will list it as among the top headlines.  Just as they list any report critical of the Bush Administration, even from a Soros front group. Â

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Just now, they spin the latest news in Pakistan to make it appear a setback for the US:  Pakistani judges freed; power slips away from U.S. ally Musharraf.  (Note the less loaded headline on the article itself.)  But, if power “slipping away from a stalwart U.S. ally” is it going to anti-American forces?  The reporter calls the Bush Administration a “staunch supporter of Musharraf,” but doesn’t mention that the president pushed for free elections there.

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Look, Yahoo!’s editors have every right to lead with whatever headlines they choose, but the more they offer headlines which fit their worldview, the more people will choose other sources for the news. And the more they encourage conservative readers to seek sources with an edge.  But, at least some of those right-of-center sources “deign” to link articles critical of the party with which they are affiliated or whose candidates they more readily support.

Comments

  1. We need an actual statistical survey to buttress the headline, although seeing Yahoo! multiple times a day, they are truly absurdly far Left in their general new stories.  What happens when you regurgitate Reuters news wires.

  3. Sorry, a bit long-winded and meandering, but I think most of you "get" me.
    Blogs are so much better than the MsM because, along with reporting the news as fairly as possible, bloggers make no claims of being "news reporters", but as commentators.  Agenda-driven commentary is what the MsM has mutated into, claiming to be "news reporters".  
    There is always going to be a "bias" for one side or the other, but be it left or right, the agendas are not intentionally attempted to be hidden, or dressed-up as the "truth".  We know where any blogger stands on any topic.  We only HOPE the MsM stands in the objective middle, but know better than to believe it.  At least some of us don’t believe it.  The others are what the fringe left has denigrated into.  And who can blame them?  Being indoctrinated can’t be fun or easy.  Well, easy, maybe.
    The MsM insults all our collective intelligence on a daily basis, which is fine to some, but it’s the reason I haven’t watched a newscast or read a mainstream newspaper/magazine in years. What passes as "responsible journalism" would be laughable, if it wasn’t so scary.  
    Finally, blogs are superior over the MsM because, and mostly seen on the conservative blogs, when a mistake is discovered in something a blogger has posted, it is immediately apologized for, and corrected, both in the same breath.  Try asking the NYT, LAT, et al, to correct, or apologize for, anything they’ve mistakenly printed as fact, to find out later it wasn’t.  You might see a 2 sentence retraction buried on page D18, or something.  
    It scares me that so many people take those rags at their word.  It scares me more that those people are permitted to vote.   Â

  4. I always read the MSM with an eye for bias. Even the WSJ has that problem. They have two editorial boards – news and the editorial page. I always start my day reading the column with the news headlines – so often the left leaning slant screams off the page. I’m expecting it.

    Then I go to the editorial page, and I get a very different picture. One thing I particularly enjoy is that on the editorial page they often have an article by a very far left voice. (Like Jimma Carter or some Obama supporter). I usually don’t read them, but talk about fair and balanced.

    On the web one of my first stops is http://www.breitbart.com/, a good source for what’s out there in the news world.