Until the Internet Came Along
Dr. Sanity, in another of her blunt but accurate posts, makes the following observation:
In my mind, the single most frightening reality that threatens our freedoms in this country is the virtual stranglehold the political left has on the dissemination of information in this country. It is the “root cause” if you will, of much of the nonsense, the faux scandals, and the ridiculous polls that we are bombarded with on a daily basis. While exhibiting a certain “selectivity” when it comes to what is reported and how, has always been a hallmark of a free press, this tendency to follow an ideological template has always been compensated for by the sheer variety and “diversity” of templates in the past. Never before has there been such a dedicated and persistent effort to ensure that only one template is used; and this is done under the cover of words like “fairness” and “truth”. (emphasis mine)
That’s true if you look at the mainstream media. The Internet, and especially blogging, has changed all that. Now you have lots of people fact-checking and commenting on the bias of allegedly fact-only articles in newspapers, on TV, or in magazines and books.
That’s a good thing.
