Liberal Conspiracy
Why are right-wingers so dominant in the UK blogosphere? Right-of-centre sites like Iain Dale's Diary, ConservativeHome and Guido Fawkes consistently leave their left-wing counterparts trailing in both pageviews and political influence. Contrast that with the US, where sites like Daily Kos, MyDD, Talking Points Memo and the Huffington Post set the political agenda and dominate the conversation.
For some time, frustrated left-wing bloggers have kicked around the idea of forming a (modestly termed) 'super-blog' to rival the success of the conservative blogosphere. Sunny Hundal of Pickled Politics has been among the more vocal, and today he launched liberalconspiracy.org along with dozens of other liberal bloggers
He hopes it will become 'the hub' of a revitalised left-wing blogosphere. So what are its chances and why does the liberal-left blogosphere need a 'kick in the pants' in the first place? Here's Eddie talking to Sunny, as broadcast on the PM programme today.
Guido Fawkes is one of the most well-known bloggers on the right, and his
blog is a Westminster must-read. So what does he make of the launch?
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New to this blogging stuff so hope I'm doing it right....
The nanny state is getting worse! If a young persn leaves school, and for reasons known maybe only to his family decides not to work or do anything 'formal', so long as he is not getting hand-outs or in trouble with the law, what is the problem?? This is political correctness gone mad surely. If we are talking about young people on benefits the that is a different matter althogether.
One reason leftwing blogs don't succeed is their obsession with moderation and control. This one is typical!
It's because left of center owns the UK, as right of center does the US. Neither the left in the UK nor the right in the US need the blogsophere. Their POV dominates newspapers, radio, tv, etc.
Call me cynical but would the BBC really have been equally questioning if the reverse was true and the left wing was dominating the blogosphere?
Ahahahahaha! All hail Paul 'Guido' Staines, the master propagandist.
Hey kids! Come and join us over on the right! We rule the blogosphere! We have a lot more fun! Oh, and there's *candy*!
Best laugh I've had in ages.
There are interesting left wing blogs, prisonersvoice and bob piper to name but two.
This new blog misses the point of blogging, which is finding stuff and people that are interesting.
Having been and had a look at this new site it fails the first test, it doesn't look ramshackle and smacks of astroturfing.
And let's face it, if we wanted to read the views of sockpuppets - we'd buy a newspaper.
Liberal Conspiracy?
This week I listened to a TODAY interview with Major Martin David who stated the experience 9/11 justifies British troop presence in Afghanistan. I am based in Turkey and I can assure you the general feeling here is 9/11 was not as it seemed. I am concerned why the BBC is not addressing the possibility of an apparently different so called truth? There are many questions and so called conspiracy theories, but this link gives a general viewpoint of allegedly 'What really happened...'
http://www.serendipity.li/wtc4.htm
If I am a deluded fool being side-tracked by ridiculous speculation, then so be it, please prove it so, but British soldiers are dying and it must be my responsibility to at least write this e-mail and ask.
And if you want to get really Liberal with your Conspiracies, try this one...
http://www.hollowearththeory.com/
Yours sincerely, Ned Pamphilon
I'm always amused at the concept that a lack of a willingness to show a bias is often seen as a bias in the opposite direction. The vast majority of the UK printed press has a right wing bias, with a couple of papers printing the other way. One of the major UK TV news organisations also has a very significant right wing bias, often espousing the views of it's owner and hiding stories that may harm its business interests.
The BBC seems to run different reporting views to different audiences. It's hard to imagine calling the populist news stance of Radio 1 or analogue TV left of centre and hard not to call Radio 4 or the World Service liberal. But they're liberal in an interesting manner, the news stories always seem to reflect the consensus and on many issues bend over backwards to represent even minority alternatives.
The problem actually seems to be that the BBC's avoidance of the anti Kyoto, anti Europe, anti non-white british, anti any Government lines taken by much of the printed media. Printing the news is not a bais, it's journalism and having the guts to print desenting views on the same outlet is commendable. Maybe some other news organisations can copy it. It would be interesting to see letters in the Times or the Sun commenting on their respective stances on China. I can't count the number of times I've head BBC reporters criticise their own organisation for any number of reasons.
Many of the privately owned news organisations complain about BBC reporting precisely because its popularity harms their business interests. Long may it continue to do so. Objective journalism is something I'd like to se more of, it's a shame mine is a minority point of view and people would rather read oppinions reflecting their own than genuine news. If only opinion could stay on opinion pages.