Hello Pot, This is Kettle. You're Black.

Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times relays the following.

.....he noted that a blog’s inherent bias might be detrimental to the reader. “A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk. There is a pressure to feel well informed without ever confronting an opinion that confronts your prejudices,” he said of blog readers.

Mr Spock?

"Fascinating."

Let's examine. There's a large - very large - contingent of folks who see the New York Times as a one ideology circle jerk (a daily visit to TimesWatch.org sheds some light). I believe that most Times readers consider themselves to be well informed yet they seldom have to confront opinions that challenge their liberal views. While I agree with Mr. Keller that most folks gravitate to news sources that make them feel cozy about their beliefs his pontificating rings hollow when held up to the light of his publication's left-wing bent. What's more interesting is that he seems threatened by bloggers and perhaps rightly so. Bloggers have placed the news media (ALL of the media including right wing outlets) under a microscope and the result is an environment of increased accountability that I'm sure chaps the living stones off of 'serious' journalists. I see this as an incredible positive. If you're reporting real news without bias then you shouldn't have to worry about a bunch of one man circle jerks checking your reporting. On the other hand if you're using journalism as a platform for promoting your agenda it's open season.