Ethics

That Damn Liberal Internet

By Ed Brayton

Here's more absurd Bill O'Reilly blather:

O'REILLY: A good case can be made there are more liberal voices in the media than conservative voices. The newspaper industry is certainly left. So is the Internet. NBC News almost completely liberal. So is PBS, so is NPR.

The internet is just a means of communication. This is like claiming that telephones have a liberal bias. It's astonishing to me how many people are confused about this. I had someone tell me the other day that blogs are unreliable. Nonsense. That's like saying newspapers or magazines are unreliable. It's just a means of communication; it is the argument being made via that medium that is either valid or invalid.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 28, 2008 (boomark / email).