Earlier I looked at allegations of so-called conservative bias at PolitiFact Wisconsin by one Jed Lounsbury of the website Uppity Wisconsin; now I’ve just happened upon a blogger here on Blogspot called “XbeyondX” who has posted some very detailed, cogent arguments almost worthy of somebody’s “Sith Blogroll” on several of PolitiFact Wisconsin’s rulings, including one that Jed Lounsbury expounded upon, again alleging conservative bias. Only this time, this blogger may really be onto something.
For “proof” of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s source of right-wing bias, “XbeyondX” provides some interesting information:
“…I am starting to wonder if we can add Milwaukee's media monopoly Journal Communications to the growing list of blatant conservative ideologues. Yes, this is the corporate parent of a radio station that interrupts its constant barrage of conservative talking points only for occasional sports.”
XbeyondX had just rated a PolitiFact (PF) Wisconsin fact check with a “Mostly True” on Wisconsin’s Republican Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen, who stated that “more than 22,000 IP addresses in Wisconsin have downloaded child pornography.” XBeyondX’s argument was that PF’s methodology—by extrapolating an estimate of the number by looking at other states—was flawed because:
To merely multiply the number of IP addresses identified during a 1 month period to conclude the number would be 9 times larger if the analysis continued for a 9 month period completely ignores the fact that one IP address may be downloading child pornography throughout that period.
