Blog Bias Ratings
As part of their series on bias in the Australian media, Crikey have released a “bias-o-metre” graphic depicting what they see as the main players in the Australian blogosphere in relation to each other.
The story and the graphic are reproduced by Larvatus Prodeo here.
Rather oddly the bias-o-metre places Jeremy Sear (a self described lefty who’s prone to publishing take downs of conservative drivel in a sarcastic tone) as more left wing that Leftwrites (a bunch of actual Marxists). On an aside, you can read Jeremy’s response to the bias-o-metre story here.
In further oddity the bias-o-metre places Tim Blair in a position that’s significantly more conservative than Jason Soon’s Catallaxy. When it came down to crunch time, I’m sure you would find that despite his dogged support for the Howard government, Blair was far more pro state intervention (and thus in my books left wing) than Jason Soon.
In response I’ve thrown together my own little graphic depicting the Australian blogosphere, it charts left-right positioning against tabloid-nontabloid blogging style. The various blogs positions aren’t based on anything other than my gut reaction.
Click on the image to enlarge.
My hope is that this demonstrates how far apart the likes of Sear and Leftwrites, or Blair and Catallaxy, actually are, despite how close they appear on Crikey’s bias-o-metre.
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Posted: by Kieran June 29th, 2007 under New Media.
Comments: 7
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Comment from skepticlawyer
Time: June 29, 2007, 9:21 pm
Yair, dunno how Jeremy finished up out there past Leftwrites. What the Crikey scale doesn’t capture is the distinction between libertarian leftists and statist leftists, along with a similar distinction between libertarian rightists and statist rightists.
I’ll wager Catallaxy would have a similar take to Jeremy on drug use - particularly soft drugs (legalise the lot). I think your quadrant style scale has real potential (something libertarians also prefer, in that it recognizes the difference between authority and liberty).
Comment from Kieran
Time: June 29, 2007, 10:48 pm
I think your quadrant style scale has real potential
I can hardly take the credit.
What Crikey’s bias-o-metre demonstrates is that although people want an easy one dimensional way to charter political parties, politicians, ideas or blogs in relation to eachother, the concept of “left and right” bias is just too… one dimensional?
An implementation of a two dimensional political scale that I quite like is the well know politicalcompass quiz. It makes that distinction between left statist and left libertarian, or right statist and right libertarian.
I was being a little tongue in cheek when I charted “tabloidness” (aka, level of bullshit) against left and right.
Then again, the authors (of the Crikey article) falsely equating level of noise with ideological extremity could explain why Blair was charted as more right wing that Catallaxy and Sear as more left wing that Leftwrites.
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