Human Events whining about "liberal bias" on Wikipedia

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From a Google News search for articles mentioning Conservapedia is this Human Events editorial by Rowan Scarborough "Wikipedia Whacks the Right". Scarborough just whines about how Wikipedia won't advance Republican smears through the articles about Chris Coons and praises Harry Reid.

Ironically, Scarborough complains that the Wiki article about Republican US Senate candidate for Alaska Joe Miller "contains a long list of virtually all his supposed conservative positions, a Wikipedia tactic meant to shock the electorate and has lots of controversial stuff about the Tea Party" while the article about Miller's Democratic opponent Scott McAdams (not to be confused with the creator of Dilbert) is much shorter. But rationally...if the article about Miller is much more detailed (with more about his personal background, career, and political positions), could that be more of a CONSERVATIVE bias?

Overall, it's basically the media's fault:

Because Wikipedia is driven by liberal-leaning contributors, entries for conservatives often come from the mainstream media—New York Times, Washington Post, major networks, et al.

Since these news organizations criticize, investigate and scrutinize conservative Republicans much more often than they do Democrats, the pool of negative, thought not always accurate data is skewed.

But guess what? Conservapedia, the right-wing knockoff of Wikipedia, is driven towards much more biased territory for sourcing every discredited conservative source under the sun ranging from Fox News to WorldNetDaily to Newsmax to pretty much any creationist/fundamentalist/anti-gay source out there.

Scarborough zeroes in on the Wikipedia photograph of Angle: "Her Wikipedia photograph is grainy and distorted, as if Reid, who is shown focused and smiling on his page, had chosen it." But looking at the info page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sharron_angle_kdwn_debate_cropped_to_shoulders.JPG) for that photo, it's actually been cropped from a larger-scale photo (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharron_angle_kdwn_debate.JPG) that's not the best quality in the first place]. Someone took that photo during a debate and uploaded it to Wikipedia as free content; Wikipedia generally avoids copyrighted photos and other material unless there's a fair use rationale. As of now, I could not find a creative commons-licensed image of Angle on Flickr.com. And the Harry Reid article actually contains a criticism section leading to an entire article devoted to criticisms of Reid whose section on "conservative criticisms" exceeds that of "liberal criticisms"! And that article has existed since February 2009.

The endnote in this opinion piece describes Scarborough as "a national security writer who has written books on Donald Rumsfeld and the CIA, including the New York Times bestseller Rumsfeld's War."

[OHdem10]

1. Human Events is so far right, that Center Right is Liberal to them

[Kucinich Feingold]

2. Stephen Colbert said it best

"The facts have a well known liberal bias"

[LostHighway]

3. They want to create their own facts....

Because they're too fucking ignorant to know some of the real ones and want to continue their own alternate reality.