Why Digg needs to be more bipartisan
Some things you should know. I’m a Canadian. I live with 3 major Federal parties existing. The Liberal Party, The Conservative Party, and The NDP. If you count The Bloc, then there’s 4. You can only vote for them in Quebec,which is only a province. Why can you vote for them as a Federal representation is beyond me.
For the sake of this article, though, I’m going to focus on American Politics.
Anyways, I pride myself on being a bipartisan voter. I think we should all take in to account the opinions of all parties involved in an election. To only listen to the voices of The Democrats or The Republicans makes you an uninformed voter and you shouldn’t be voting. You have the right to vote and the right to vote unintelligently, but that makes you a fool. Sorry, but it’s true.
In the past year, these are the top stories on Digg.com under the politics sections:
Top in “Political News” over the last 365 days:
- Barack Obama Officialy Becomes 44th American President: 25,106 Diggs
- Legalization of Marijuana Bill in California: 8,659 Diggs
- Undeniable proof that Arkansas is a backwards hellhole!!!: 7,965 Diggs
- Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Katie Couric SNL Skit (VIDEO): 7,743 Diggs
- Whitehouse.gov - before and after: 6,943 Diggs
- Barney Frank Confronts Woman Comparing Obama to Hitler: 6,495 Diggs
Top in “Political Opinion” over the last 365 days:
- Hayden Panettiere PSA: Vote for McCain: 7,990 Diggs
- Legalize It: 7,493 Diggs
- US Military threatens to kill pet of deployed US Soldier: 7,129 Diggs
- Someone predicted this economic collapse A year ago, who?: 6,561 Diggs
- EPIC Obama ‘08 - Vote For Hope Video: 6,037 Diggs
- Democracy is… (PIC): 5,721 Diggs
- Liar…??: 5,506 Diggs
This is all pro-democrat propaganda. I really do mean propaganda because the stories on Digg are not representing the thoughts of sound-minded individuals. According to Digg:
“…we’re here to provide a place where people collectively determine the value of content. In doing so, we’re changing the way people consume information online.”
This is still the case, but unfortunately the majority of people on digg are turning it into a liberalist machine to further digg’s political agenda.
Fox news does the same thing. All the media pumping out of there is just going against the democrats by spinning real information to suit their needs. They use O’Reilly to intensify the already held beliefs of those watching Fox News. The people that watch this channel don’t consume their media from anywhere else. They may, once in a while, go to CNN, but that’s not much better.
This doesn’t sound like a sound-minded person, does it? No. Digg always has, and will continue to pump out stories of Fox Pundits’ opinions and state why they’re wrong. There’s nothing wrong with this, but you have to show the other side. As soon as the Liberal agenda is attacked, digg retaliates and plays the victim game.
This is unfair and unjust. Digg is doing nothing wrong here, since there are no editors. The community needs to look at themselves from another light and stop praising themselves for being “liberal”, “hip”, or “with-it” and take other point of view into their minds and maybe promote that to the front page, or all the kids that are visiting digg for the first time (the 13-17 year-olds) will get an uninformed sight of what’s happening in the world.
Instead of talking about it, do something. Give all voices a chance. Stop patting yourself on the back.
