His Scale And Mirrors Are Rigged, Too.

Donald Trump thinks that Google is rigged against him because the top results on a web search of “trump news” are all from “left-leaning sources” (read: major news outlets).

First, I’ll ignore the fact that major news outlets (CNN, ABC News, The Washington Post, etc.) are simply more widely disseminated (and clicked), thus their articles show up higher in Google’s search results than those of less widely followed sites like InfoWars and Breitbart (links purposefully not here, because aw HELL no).

Second, I’ll leave to other articles the fact that journalists tend toward being more “liberal” because they are better educated and exposed to more diverse points of view than the average human.

I wrote this back in February 2017:

Is it possible that [journalists] are biased? Yep. Hell, it’s likely, in fact. It takes education to become a journalist. It takes exposure to people and places outside of your provincial little world to write good copy. I can almost guarantee you that “the media” leans left. Education and liberalism are strongly positively correlated.

In other words (yes, I’m now using myself as a source AND paraphrasing myself…I have to make up for my shitty Google ranking), it’s not surprising that the top results on a search of any newsworthy topic would be (a) written by journalists from widely circulated news outlets, and (b) written by journalists who are likely liberal in their personal biases. Does that mean they’re biased in their…