Interesting column in last Sundays pink section of the Chronicle by Neva Chonin entitled: In Blogs we trust. As it turns out the only way that I ever find out anything new about the Internet is by reading the newspaper. But anyways in her column she talks about conservatives on the internet and about all the new sites out there that are spreading right winged views.
This is interesting, although I never really thought about it a lot of the content on the internet seems to lean slightly to the left. I guess conservatives are for the most part more into the traditional forms of media like print, television and radio. No shock there, can’t imagine finding too many good ol’ boys on Myspace. But now they are starting to catch up on to this whole Internet idea and aren’t going to let those liberals hog the web with all their propaganda.
The result is more propaganda. Apparently conservatives feel (and I can’t completely disagree) that Wikipedia is polluted with liberal bias and they aren’t going to stand for it. So now if your not sure if what you read on Wikipedia is legit you can check out the conservative answer to Wikipedia on Conservapedia and then hope to find a point between the two extremes that could actually have factual value. Good luck.
The point is that it is becoming increasingly hard to trust that information that you seek doesn’t have an agenda behind. Although the Internet is the biggest source of misinformation and skewed facts, television is right there with it, with Fox news for the righties and CNN for the left side.
Why should we have to pick which bias we want when it comes to knowing what’s going on in the world? Are we that divided that we can’t even tolerate each others views?
I don’t remember it always being like this, I’m sure it’s somehow the Internet’s fault.
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