Wednesday, July 11, 2007

We don't need no education

Why is it that given two of the most egalitarian media content sources in history featuring content provided entirely by the near countless users, youtube and wikipedia, some conservatives claimed "liberal bias" and created their own conservative versions of each site? I don't know of any special liberial version of such sites.

Why is it that the ranks of the home-schooled are dominated by the children of very conversative (and Christian) parents?

Why is it that I often see a conservative book club advertised on the web, but I've never even heard of a liberal one?

A conservative Fox News pundit, Bill O'Reilly, often claims that he's really standing up for the views of the majority of Americans. If he's correct, how is it that the purported liberal minority apparently controls almost all sources of media, education, science, and information in general and the supposed conservative majority must strive to insulate themselves from it?

If we claim that media people, educators, and scientists have a liberal bias, aren't we saying that many of our smartest, most well-informed people have a liberal bias? If that's the case, how is it a bad thing? Intelligent, well-informed people aren't to be trusted? Does that mean we should listen to uneducated, uninformed people instead?

I'm so confused.

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