"I guess we'll see if/. can manage to be "fair and balanced", considering the rather significant slant in its readership.
Yeah, but slant in which direction? I've seen people stating, as if it were a self-evident fact, that the majority of the/. readership is heavily left leaning, while other people are equally convinced that it's right/libertarian leaning.
You obviously think the perceived slant is so pronounced that you don't even have to specify which way it leans (or falls over, as the case may be).
In my eyes, I have to say the slant appears to be to the right, with a heavy influence of libertarian thinking. Offhand, I can't remember having read a truly leftist view on/., ever.
YWVMV (Your World View May Vary), this one was brought to you from Norway.
And this, again, brings us to why the left-right political spectrum is inadequate. Politics is so inherently diverse, and so hard to take in all at once, that simply labeling everything as being "liberal" or "conservative" is idiotic.
People will always see their own bias, or their opponents' bias, in others, because their political views try to shoehorn _everything_ into one of two categories./. does not lean in any particular direction, at least as far as I can tell. Its readership does, but I'm not su
Realize that there is no left in the US, what they call left is called in most countries right, and not even moderate right. Really, democrats are more "rightists" than most right political parties in europe, and what we call left would probably be tagged as communism or something like that.
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Yeah, but slant in which direction? I've seen people stating, as if it were a self-evident fact, that the majority of the /. readership is heavily left leaning, while other people are equally convinced that it's right/libertarian leaning.
You obviously think the perceived slant is so pronounced that you don't even have to specify which way it leans (or falls over, as the case may be).
In my eyes, I have to say the slant appears to be to the right, with a heavy influence of libertarian thinking. Offhand, I can't remember having read a truly leftist view on /., ever.
YWVMV (Your World View May Vary), this one was brought to you from Norway.
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\. Left leaning news.
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People will always see their own bias, or their opponents' bias, in others, because their political views try to shoehorn _everything_ into one of two categories.
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