One of the more unbalanced individuals who visits Skypeland claimed that the news media are all biased since they give only soundbites, and not the full speeches or complete coverage of certain events. I have pointed out to him repeatedly that commercial news outlets have to do what sells. He has maintained that this is a sign of an evil bias that exists in the media and a conspiracy.
We showed him that he could get the full versions of UN speeches etc by visiting the United Nations or CSPAN or several other outlets, and he complained that this was unfair since there were no links on the commercial news websites to their competitors, or to the full text of speeches, or complete coverage. We pointed out that these commercial entities are under no obligation to provide links to their competitors or to host a huge amount of content for free on their websites. He argued and argued and argued about this like a madman (which might not be too far from the truth...)
Interesting, he does not trust the governments, and in fact hates them, but advocates letting them control all news. Oh brother...
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