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Again you are trying to push your leftist agenda by defending the liberal media. I refuse to comprehend your point.
La la la

Seriously, this isn't off-topic. Criticism of media bias as a systemic problem has (1) shifted from the left to the right and (2) become a mainstream issue.

I'm also serious that the Interwebs have a tendency to isolate groups instead of bringing them together. Before you know it, you are engaging only with people with a similar outlook and affiliation as yourself. In the US it seems that after home schooling you now have a trend toward 'home newsing'. Traditional media are disappearing at a frightening rate in the US.

A bigoted religious minority with a serious terrorist streak that feeds itself on blogs is a serious problem. They have depicted Obama as a muslim, a foreigner and a traitor, they have used images of opponents with gun targets over their faces, there was a big TP rally in DC where opponents were shouted down as faggots and n******. All the hallmarks of radicalisation are there. It reminds me of the radicalisation of parts of the left in the late sixties and early seventies: a belief in romantic myths and irrational stances, coupled with delusions about 'liberating' violence.

AII