Firefox Add-on Warns When You Visit a Murdoch Owned Website

Re:Firefox Add-on Warns When You Visit a Murdoch Owned Website by CWuestefeld on Friday July 22, 2011 @10:09AM (#2793555)

One might as well create a blocker for all media outlets. All of them, more or less, have had serious ethical lapses.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Firefox Add-on Warns When You Visit a Murdoch Owned Website by nolok on Friday July 22, 2011 @10:16AM (#2793580)

Since I both agree and disagree with you (what you say is true, but at the same time a few outlets tend to be very high quality even if it disagree with their traditionnal ideas while some try to impose their views no matter what), I would say that the best solution would be an extension telling you which way the paper tends to defends, "this webpage is mostly pushing for right-wing/free market view" or something like that. Know what and who you are reading, then get informed by both side on the subject at hand.

Then is no right and wrong sides, only opinions (at least that's how I view it).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Firefox Add-on Warns When You Visit a Murdoch Owned Website by CWuestefeld on Friday July 22, 2011 @11:09AM (#2793830)

this webpage is mostly pushing for right-wing/free market view

I'm digressing badly, but it's a character flaw of mine that I can't let this statement go.

The right-wing treatment of the market (i.e., the set of policies pursued by GWB and his ilk) is anything but "free market". The predominant Conservative policies are better described as "corporatist" in that they explicitly support corporate interests.

In some ways, a free market resembles this, because they both demand that consumer interests practice "caveat emptor", because there are fewer regulations that constrain what businesses can do.

But contrast to this, a free market system would also refuse to tilt the playing field in favor of the corporations, against the consumer or broader public interests [1]. So rent-seeking policies that institutionalize certain business interests would be avoided, for example. The "too-big-to-fail" idea would certainly gain no traction in a free market.

[1] While the Conservatives are usually the ones stereotyped as being corporatist, the Liberals are every bit as guilty. Consider such "left-wing" policies as ethanol subsidies, or the recent bailout, fostered by Democrats, of GM and Chrysler.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Firefox Add-on Warns When You Visit a Murdoch Owned Website by nolok on Friday July 22, 2011 @11:39AM (#2793950)

Just FYI, I'm french and here right wing means a whole different thing so I just took I wild guess at what that would mean for the average reader here. Thanks for the additional information though.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Firefox Add-on Warns When You Visit a Murdoch Owned Website by CWuestefeld on Friday July 22, 2011 @11:54AM (#2794025)

Sorry, nothing personal. Your statement was an accurate characterization of the prevailing public thought (i.e., that's what most people seem to believe), and that's why I reacted to it that way.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Firefox Add-on Warns When You Visit a Murdoch Owned Website by johnchristopher on Friday July 22, 2011 @10:30AM (#2793646)

>Then is no right and wrong sides, only opinions (at least that's how I view it).

And that is your opinion :)

More seriously: it's not because two things are opposite that there both weight the same or are both valuable different opinions regarding the same set of facts.. it just may be that one of them is wrong. There are bad news reporting and good journalism.

I like the idea of your extension. But how would you decide who is to describe the article and how to asses its value and honesty ? Coulnd't this be easily subject to manipulation as comments in general ?

[ Parent | on HN ]