Bias Exposed -digg in bed with Huffington Post

You know how they say that you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep? Well, you can also tell a lot about a person by the blogs they read. Let's take it one step further. You can tell a lot about a social news website by the blogs they cozy up with. Case in point, the digg interview of Sir Richard Branson, which was conducted by Arianna Huffington; -co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post.

The Huffington Post is glaringly left leaning in the content that it publishes. The Huffington Post makes no bones about it. The Huffington Post is un-apologetic in its purpose and agenda. The Huffington Post is more tabloid and less journalism. The case can easily be made that the Huffington Post is void of any journalistic integrity, while it can be said that the Huffington Post is intellectually bankrupt. Then again, I am a conservative and I call it as I see it.

When I saw the interview by Arianna Huffington with Sir Richard Branson on behalf of digg, the first thing that came into my mind was that there must be quite the cozy relationship between the two. The Huffington Post, the purveyor of inaccuracies, leftist hit pieces and kool-aid journalism. And, then there’s digg, the social news site that claims to have an ingenious algorithm designed to evenhandedly administer submitted stories without bias. The problem is, Stories submitted in awe of some leftist ideal often make the digg front page with as few as sixty diggs, while stories submitted by conservatives can collect hundreds of diggs in just a few hours and never see the front page. Either the digg algorithm is broken, or the biased digg staff IS the algorithm!

digg is rife with leftist members who gang-bang conservatives and their submissions through the process of burying and hurled insults. Meanwhile, the digg staff turns a blind eye to the very acts of ‘Terms of Service’ violations by the leftist members that often results in the banning of the conservative members when they’re reported for TOS violations.

Put the Huffington Post and digg in bed together, and what you end up with a social news site that professes fairness and open-mindedness towards all viewpoints but, in reality you end up with an agenda driven war against conservatives, where insults and flaming are the weapons of ‘debate’ used by the leftists. The Huffington Post is the source of any ‘reputable’ ammunition that is religiously used by the leftists on digg, while any other source quoted by a conservative is dismissed as not having any journalistic value whatsoever. How backwards and hypocritical is that?

I’m going to issue a challenge to digg. A challenge that serves to either expose digg for the left leaning, agenda driven, social news site that digg really is. Or, a challenge that shows that digg will also make an attempt to be fair to the countless conservatives that contribute to digg through submissions and banner ‘clicks’. I challenge digg to seek out conservative media members to interview accomplished peoples, just like Arianna Huffington has interviewed Sir. Richard Branson for digg. Why not ask Hannity, Huckabee, Beck or Farah to sit down to submit digger’s questions to notable people?

Somehow I doubt that an effort will be made by digg to reach out to digg’s conservative membership. That’s not what digg does. Digg loves the contributions made by conservatives, the revenue generated by conservatives through the banner clicks, but digg has no respect for these same people, as evidenced by how digg allows those on the left to stalk, troll and attack those on the right with impunity.