Ask Skewz.com Founder About Detecting Media Bias

Skewz.com is not the Microsoft-funded Blews experiment that is supposed to help detect rightness and leftness in stories based on blogs that link to them. Instead of detecting blog links, Skewz relies on readers to submit and rate stories, and even tries to pair stories that have "liberal" and "conservative" biases so that you can get multiple takes on the same event or pronouncement. The Skewz About page explains how it works. The site has drawn a fair amount of "media insider" attention, including a writeup on the Poynter Institute website. But what does all this mean? Where is it going? Can Skewz.com help us sort our news better and make more informed decisions? We don't know. But if you post a question here for founder Vipul Vyas, maybe he'll have an answer for you. (Please try to follow the usual Slashdot interview rules.)

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Re:Are all americans one dimensional

[Naughty Bob]

Left: Society is responsible for the individual (Government regulation and welfare)
Right: Individuals are responsible for them selves (Free market)

A progressive society recognises the benefits in helping out its less fortunate members.

Sure, there's a balance to be struck between helping them, and encouraging freeloading, but then the discussion becomes about the mechanism, not the principles.

The 'Democratic Socialist' systems of Scandinavia are repeatedly judged to be the most successful in quality of life terms (and what else are we here for?)

Meanwhile, America (which I cite only because it is the self-proclaimed poster-child for unfettered free marketism), is projected to reach 28 Million people surviving on food stamps this year. You are fiddling whilst Rome burns, in a most Marie Antoinette-like fashion.