Conservapedia

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Asher
...but they don't seem to question why that is. And here's a hint: people like the author who wrote the article.

QFT

[Colonâ„¢]

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia

Uncyclopedia's article on conservapedia.

[Elok]

This has been mentioned on 'poly before, but it's been a while. Sadly, I believe Conservapedia has removed the image of Jesus riding a sauropod from their entry on dinosaurs.

[LordShiva]

Yeah, old.

[Jonny]

If they're doing it to make Wikipedia appear leftist in nature, then the obvious solution is to form a group accusing Wikipedia of conservative bias and to start an overtly liberal encyclopedia.

Marxopedia

[Dis]

I thought wikipedia was fairly neutral myself. conservatives can be whacked in the head sometimes.

[Patroklos]

As stated some articles go off in all sorts of directions depending on who is contributing. Just depends on what articles you read.

[Alexander I]

Is that really a serious website? If so, they're really making themselves look bad.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Zkribbler

...but they don't seem to question why that is. And here's a hint: people like the author who wrote the article.

QFT

It's funny because they're mistreated.

[Jaguar]

Wikipedia is biased towards the viewpoints of the typical frequent internet user. So there's a definite geek bias, youth bias, male bias, richer-than-average bias, etc.

Also, each individual article is biased towards the POV of the sort of person who would read the article. That's why the 9-11 and Roswell conspiracy theory articles are so unencyclopedic and stuff. Because generally it's conspiracy nutjobs who would read and edit those articles.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Jaguar

It's funny because they're mistreated.

More precisedly, it's funny because the guy who mistreats gays says one of the reasons people should not be gay is because they'll be mistreated.

[Impaler[WrG]]

The meaning of the word conservative is quite literally 'biased', "un-biased conservative" is an oxymoron

[Elok]

Originally posted by VJ
Neither the founders or the contributers are taking this seriously. The point is not to get people to take Conservapedia seriously, it's to create an image to observers that since there are two "pedias", Wikipedia must have a liberal bias. It's the same logic what FOX News executives had when they formed "Half hour news show" to "compete" with "The Daily Show".

Bias is subjective. I consider the Daily Show quite liberally biased, and I've never seen Fox News's alternative. I was barely even aware that show existed, I only know of it from stumbling over its bad reviews in the WaPo a few weeks back.

Which is not to say the Daily Show isn't quite funny. On the contrary, it can be hysterical. But given the chance, it will hammer conservatives a lot harder than liberals. When it does hammer liberals, it's usually for not going after conservatives more aggressively. That's why they started the Colbert Report spinoff, to give a faux "right-wing" (read: leftist parody of the right wing) alternative. I don't blame them at all for having said slant; political humor without any political viewpoint would not be humorous.

Now, I'm told that by European standards the Democrats are quite conservative. I suppose the Daily Show might seem more middle-of-the-road to Euros.

[Jaguar]

Elok, the way I'd describe it is that Stewart is to represent the voice of reason in the face of the irrational world of politics. Colbert, on the other hand, is a parody of that irrationality.

The Daily Show, as Stewart is running it, is very critical of Bush and his administration, but I think it's hard to say that's a left-wing bias at the moment. I think he's pretty in touch with reality when he criticizes the president, and people like that shouldn't really be considered to have a bias.

Now, if there was a liberal president who was running things fairly poorly, and Stewart wasn't as critical of that president, then you could allege that Stewart is biased. But as far as I'm concerned, he's just right at the moment.

[Zkribbler]

Jon Stewart has one cushie job.

They show a clip of a politician saying something and then he looks at the camera with a WTF-expression on his face. Stupid politicians are a humorists gold mine.