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November 03, 2004
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Glenn in the Guardian

Perry de Havilland (London) Blogging & Bloggers • Media & Journalism • North American affairs

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Glenn Reynolds has a good article in the Guardian about the election and expresses some interesting ideas about its lessons for the media.

Thanks to the internet, cable news channels and talk radio, media bias is easier to spot and easier for people to bypass. This not only changes views, but prevents the formation of a phoney consensus - what experts call "preference falsification" - resulting from widespread, and unified, media bias.
Those of you across the Atlantic may wish to take a lesson from this. As the BBC's atrocious handling of the Gilligan affair - and, indeed, its war coverage generally - illustrates, media bias is hardly limited to the United States.

But what is with that photo? I would not have recognised that as Glenn but for the context in which it was displayed.

Comments

He's looking very 'Paul Merton'-ish there - maybe its a Guardian Photoshop thing (everyone ends up looking like a minor Labour celebrity) ...

Posted by Julian Taylor at November 3, 2004 04:28 PM

I can't believe you didn't include the rest of that paragraph. Its the best part.

In fact, it's probably stronger elsewhere, and less noted, because there are fewer alternatives. Most countries have nothing like American-style talk radio, for example, because it poses far too great a threat to elites to be permitted. Still, British blogs like Samizdata, Biased BBC, Harry's Place and Normblog are providing alternative voices. Since I don't think that elite media have done a very good job during the decades of their dominance, I look forward to seeing alternative media make a difference around the world.

Don't be so modest. Although upon reflection I can understand aversion to being mentioned in that particular publication.

Posted by cessair at November 3, 2004 04:30 PM

The photo portrays Glenn as Insta-Death, one of the four horsemen of the ablogalypse. See http://instapundit.com/archives/007702.php.

Posted by Samuel Tai at November 4, 2004 01:23 AM

I thought that photo of Prof. Reynolds had a sort of 'horror movie' (hammer films, anyone?) sort of feel to it.--I suppose in that "Americans are SCARY" meme I often see in Euro writings.

Posted by Eric Blair at November 4, 2004 04:44 AM

Darth Reynolds

Posted by abnjm at November 4, 2004 11:20 PM

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