You're absolutely right about the need for filtering. What I find interesting is the growth of online venues that provide exactly that service, but non-professionally -- that is, nobody's making their entire living off that job, though they may earn some amount of money for it. I'm not convinced that quality invariably suffers from it being a part-time occupation or hobby for the contributors. With a good group of people, and a smart person holding the reins, you can get awfully good results.
Personally, I get most of my political news at this point from Daily Kos. What's interesting to me is that I feel a slight impulse to find some other site to read at the same time, as a cross-check against the DK perspective. How many people, now or in the past, feel/felt the need to read multiple newspapers for the same reason? Even if you lived in a two- or three-newspaper town, you probably only read one. Yet newspapers still carry the aura of objective, unbiased reporting that a website like DK doesn't -- even though I recognize how much of an illusion that aura is. Maybe it's just that DK is more open about its bias: they don't feel the need to pretend to be anything other than liberal.
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Date: 2007-05-14 06:51 pm (UTC)Personally, I get most of my political news at this point from Daily Kos. What's interesting to me is that I feel a slight impulse to find some other site to read at the same time, as a cross-check against the DK perspective. How many people, now or in the past, feel/felt the need to read multiple newspapers for the same reason? Even if you lived in a two- or three-newspaper town, you probably only read one. Yet newspapers still carry the aura of objective, unbiased reporting that a website like DK doesn't -- even though I recognize how much of an illusion that aura is. Maybe it's just that DK is more open about its bias: they don't feel the need to pretend to be anything other than liberal.