Saturday, March 3, 2007

Bias in an encyclopedia?

There has been a recent backlash at the website wikipedia, but in an intresting way.

Wikipedia itself is an open encyclopedia that allows for people to edit entries, which go through an approval process. Although this is not the ideal candidate for academic research, it does hold a great amount of information, that is becoming increasingly accurate.

Encyclopedia Briticanica attacked the idea of having an editable encyclopedia, but it seems like there is a greater target. The religious right.

Apparently Wikipedia has a liberal bias....although anyone can edit it....are conservates not found on the net?

Well now there is a solution for everyone outraged....conservapedia.com (which from the name apparently is unbiased).

Lets see what we have here....

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Fox news

From Conservapedia

Fox News was started in 1996 in response to the other cable news channels which all had obvious liberal biases. Because of this, Rupert Murdoch decided to start a real new channel which would tell the truth. The success of Fox news over every other news channel is because it is fair and balanced. [1] It has many people on it who work to spread truth such as Sean Hannity who is a great American. [2]. Fox News is best because instead of just telling you what to think, they only report the news unbiased and then allow the viewer to decide. [3].

In 2005 the White House selected Tony Snow from Fox News to be the new White House press secretary which was a great honor for Fox because it showed how well it was presenting the real truth instead of the fake liberal version.

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I don't know where to begin on this one, nor do I have the time, but there is one thing to point out.

Conservapedia is no longer allowing new visitors to create accounts and contribute content.