Ascertained: Yahoo is guilty of a highly-crafted Liberal bias.
I don’t know why Yahoo slants reality towards the left, but it has
been my objective observation that in fact they do. I base this opinion
upon a private informal study that I made last year which concluded…
** 82% of their ranked listings of the headlines on their main
web page were angled towards a Democrat posture.**
My methodology was this…
(1) Unlike electronic and print mediums (sic), Yahoo controls the pretense of the relative importance of these postures by listing the top stories of the day en masse. This order influences the lazy reader to in-ordinarily judge the top stories with regard to the most important.
So to compesate, I assigned a scale to correct this artificial device:
I gave a descending value value of ten to one on the order presented. “Ten” being the highest value and nine the next and so forth.
(2) Yahoo has a sneaky habit of keeping the headlines of events that serve their agenda ( I hate that word “agenda”) on their list longer than the other issues ( I more so hate the word “issues”) to which they disagree.
To compensate I have applied a floating point system that is used at my discretion.
(3) The wording of the Yahoo’s listings belie the substance of their outside news reports.
Now I’m sure there’s going to be plenty of naysayers in this thread, but don’t jump the gun here, folks. After all, Milum is a man of science. He assigned the stories point values. By god, you can’t argue with mathematics!
And on top of all that, one headline today says “Rover goes for Longest Trip yet on Mars”. Surely you liberals aren’t going to try to pretend that that isn’t intended as a metaphorical advertisement for Kerry’s plan to ‘go the distance’ in the upcoming election, are you?
Highly-crafted? Because of how they rank news stories in the little box? I don’t think so. The box may be biased, but any bias is certainly not highly-crafted.
How often did you look at the box? What about news headlines shown in the box while you are sleeping? What if you go on vacation for a week? Who is monitoring the news box? How do you know the box does not lean conservative when you’re not looking?
What do you mean by “angled towards a Democrat posture”? What is a “Democrat posture”, anyway? Does this have anything to do with the positioning of the box?
So you gave each story a number, 10 to 1, based on its position in the box. I am afraid I do not understand how this helps you determine a liberal bias. Please explain.
What is this “floating point system”? Do you know what “floating point” means? How can we be sure that when you use your discretion to implement this system, you are not introducing personal bias into this informal study? Do you have any examples of this occuring? Consistently? And what, specifically, is “their agenda”?
Examples?
Clearly.
I shouldn’t make fun, though. I conducted my own “private informal study”, which I will now make public. The results clearly show Yahoo!'s liberal bias. A search for “Conservative” returns 3,960,000 results. A search for “Liberal” returns 5,030,000 results.. Obviously, the vast left-wing conspiracy (aka Yahoo!) is trying to keep the conservative viewpoint from the public. Bastards.
<phew> I was getting worried nobody would show up to take the story seriously and Milum’s tenuous grasp of reality might be further weakened by the knowledge that everyone made fun of him and thought he was a doofus.
