Overcoming the modern media filter [View all]

[Alan M]

Lots of people talk about a liberal or conservative media bias, but if you’re trying to get your opinions out there on the Internet there is a new and chilling bias you need to acquaint yourself with.
http://www.soloblogger.com/why-your-blog-doesnt-get-any-love-from-google/

[quote] Over the years the Internet has slowly morphed from an open venue where anyone could be heard into a closed invitation only soiree where the average person is kept behind a rope line.[/quote]
[quote] Let’s take a look at the biggest story of the 2012 election Mitt Romney’s 47% comment spoken at a private fundraiser and recorded on a smart phone by a bartender working the event. It was the story that almost never broke. Why?

None of the Internet gate keepers were willing to give him a venue that he could be heard in. For months he labored alone uploading small clips of the video he took to You Tube and then he posted links to those video clips on the Washington Post’s website, the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. He could only post to the public comments sections of those sites because it was the only venue those sites made available to him. The Daily Kos ended up banning him concluding he wasn’t credible because nobody knew who he was, and he wasn't able to generate even negative attention on the other sites because his comments didn't stand out among the sheer mass of public comments.[/quote]