Those damn liberals
Perhaps the reason I find myself drifting to Netscape News so often is that there’s an obvious liberal bias to their social bookmarking. Or at least one conservative claims in this bog entry, which has made the front page of today’s news. Personally I agree that there is a liberal bias to the articles bookmared on Nestcape these days. Perhaps that is why I’ve been reading the news via social bookmarking.
Ironically CRTNET (a discussion list for rhetoric/communication types that is popular in my field) is going through a similar issue where conservatives feel that they are marginalized and silenced because they are not the majority opinion and CRTNET has a liberal bias. This has been an ongoing discussion for years on CRTNET but it has come to a head with a task force called to make recommendations about how to handle the so-called bias. They recommend shifting discussion to an external site. It reminds me of what happened at LSU with one of the students who put up a fit that there was too much of a liberal bias on the department’s listserv, it was unprofessional, it was unnecessary discussion and he was angry that he had to put up with it. So, several people made a second list serv that was more informal to continue those conversations. And guess what. He subscribed to it anyway.
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“Reality has a liberal bias!”
~Stephen Colbert
Shaun