Sunday, May 6, 2007

Conservatives Perceive YouTube Bias, Launch New Video-Sharing Site

Apparently, videos of fat children playing make-believe with toy lightsabers or home videos of a cat sneezing has an inherent liberal bias. Two months ago, conservatives unhappy with the content guidelines on YouTube created their own video portal known as QubeTV. From their website:

Without question, 21st century technology is bringing fundamental change to every aspect of our lives. What that means for conservatives is that the decades-old dominance of the Old Media – the elitist liberal media driven by the political and cultural impulses of a handful of New York and Washington-based editors, journalists and television executives – is at long last coming to a rapid end. The New Media – which includes the contributors of every single video, still picture and blog entry on QubeTV – has arrived. As we like to say here, you are a “conservative army with cameras.”

Wikipedia, the user edited Internet encyclopedia, also has some conservative competition. Conservapedia.com was founded in November 2006 by Andrew Schlafly, son of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. I searched the term "evolution" and was given this response:

The
theory of evolution is a materialist explanation of the history of life on earth.

An article by CBS News begins with the observation that, "Americans do not believe that humans evolved, and the vast majority says that even if they evolved, God guided the process. Just 13 percent say that God was not involved."

In case you were wondering, here is the same term explained by that elite liberal website, wikipedia:

Biological evolution is the change in a population's inherited traits from generation to generation. These traits are encoded as genes that are copied and passed on to offspring during reproduction. Mutations and other random changes in these genes can produce new or altered traits, resulting in inheritable differences (genetic variation) between organisms. Evolution occurs when these differences become more common or rare in a population. This either happens through natural selection, which is caused by differences in the reproductive value of the traits, or randomly through genetic drift.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

apparently "elite" is synonnomous with "everone who has access to an internet connection."

At least conservipedia got one definition right: "A wiki is a website enabling visitors to add, edit or remove content in an easy manner. This facilitates collaborative efforts by many people, often simultaneously."

wincheck said...

All part of the continuing (and absurd) victimhood mantra of the modern conservative movement.