[Infowarrior] - more on ... 5 Questions with Eli Pariser, Author of 'The Filter Bubble'

[Richard Forno]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: dan
> 
> This is, in a core way, exactly the point.  I don't care about
> the bias of a writer for this or that newspaper -- the bias
> that matters, the bias that changes everything, is that the
> richness of available content has overwhelmed our ability to
> see it all or for a content provider to lay out the true reach
> of his wares in his stall at the bazaar.  As such, the content
> provider can have nothing on his table that isn't completely
> true and still be overwhelmingly biased because the bias is
> embedded in the selection of what stories to run, not in how
> to write the stories.  This is why I loathe NPR and why I find
> the existence of Fox necessary if often unseemly -- story selection.
> 
> Q: What is the single most persuasive example of this in the
> print media?
> A: Which letters-to-the-editor get printed.
> 
> 
> I could go on and on this but it is now impossible to avoid the
> need for selection and impossible, in that flood of content, to
> even assess the selection bias that must be present.  The null
> hypothesis is now that bias exists, not that it doesn't.  That
> is a fundamental inflection point.
> 
> There is so much to say here...