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NY Times Editor Says Bloggers Biased

Via Drudge comes this Columbia Spectator story of a New York Times editor's recent speech:

On the state of print journalism in America today, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, said, “This is not a time when editors swear off alcohol.”

Keller was the keynote speaker at Friday night’s Blue Pencil Dinner, an annual Spectator fund-raiser held in Low Rotunda. The event served both as a chance for Spectator staffers to learn about journalism from insiders and for alumni to reconnect with the paper.
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Keller also sees “blogging,” or online writing that blurs news and commentary, as a mixed blessing. While he celebrated the blogger’s ability to uncover breaking news, he noted that a blog’s inherent bias might be detrimental to the reader. “A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk.”

And certainly the New York Times leads the way. Excuse me a moment: Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah...

Gosh Mr. Keller, the New York Times certainly didn't show any bias in the way they've covered the recent election, George Bush, or the war in Iraq, have they?

And there certainly isn't any bias in their coverage of gun ownership and the Second Amendment, is there? Oh, there is, actually. In fact, the NYT bias is one of the reasons Alphecca has been able to carve out a niche in the blogosphere; reporting and setting the record straight on your newspaper's biased reporting on such 2A issues.

And if the public is to trust journalists, then how does the New York Times feel about having given Dan Rather a free-pass with almost no reporting on his clearly biased agenda to swing the just-past election into Kerry's favor by broadcasting about phony documents relating to President Bush's National Guard service?

What's changed, Mr. Keller, is that the playing field has evened up. No longer is the public held hostage to a few liberal national newspapers and three liberal networks.

Now we have Fox, which swings the other way, and talk radio and bloggers which fact-check the Main Stream Media every step of the way.

It must suck, huh, not being the only game in town anymore?

If you guys were really doing your jobs right, there wouldn't need to be any bloggers.

As an example of just how awful the New York Times is on Second Amendment issues, of just how biased they really are, read a post I wrote about an editorial of theirs a year-and-a-half ago titled Quick, the smelling salts!.

And that would be fine if their opinions were limited to their editorials. But they aren't. Their bias creeps into their news stories every day. And not just the articles, but where they're placed, when they appear, and IF they appear at all.