Tuesday 18 August 2009

Pot and kettle?

The Financial Times takes a pot at political blogging today (hat tip Tim Montgomerie).

This is one of their introductory sentences: "Readers can, if they so wish, live within a bubble where they are presented only with streams of evidence that support their prejudices. This is a particular problem in political blogging, where the effects of this tendency are intensified by writers' habit of linking mainly to like-minded..."

I believe that I can improve the accuracy of this sentence with one change:

"Readers can, if they so wish, live within a bubble where they are presented only with streams of evidence that support their prejudices. This is a particular problem with newspapers, where the effects of this tendency are intensified by writers' habit of linking mainly to like-minded..."

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