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You could make similar claims about say The Guardian, or people who get their news from Reddit. Personally, I find the echo-chamber on the left to be far more w

You could make similar claims about say The Guardian, or people who get their news from Reddit. Personally, I find the echo-chamber on the left to be far more worrying (Not to mention their constant condescending sneering, looking down on the "idiot" masses). Look at Reddit at the moment.. endless discussion about how the only reason anyone could vote for Romney is "uneducated voters". In this case, both graphs look completely stagnant. Perhaps The Daily Mail did choose their start date to tie the numbers up nicely. Maybe they even rounded the start and end figures so that they could claim the numbers are exactly the same. But whichever way you look at it, the graphs are stagnant.

CaptainZapp 14y ago
You may not like the left leaning stance of the Guardian, which is fine. To compare it, however, with The Daily Mail is a bit ridiculous.
- mibbitier 14y ago
  I don't think so, The Daily Mail generally likes to make you feel scared. The Guardian generally likes to make you feel outraged. They're just playing on different emotions to sell papers. As regards quality, fact checking, bias, they're all very similar.
  - kokey 14y ago
    I couldn't agree with you more. I believe the ability to spot the error and bias in the one while being blind to that of the other is a good indicator of a person's own bias.
adrianhoward 14y ago
I don't think that's quite fair. I see as much criticism of the Mail by right wing folk as left wing. The Times reader doesn't like the Mail much either in my experience. The right comparison to the Mail on the left would be the Mirror I think - not the Guardian.
glenra 14y ago
It seems obvious the chart starts in September so the reader can compare like to like. If the chart had started in January but ended with the most recent available month (September) that would dishonestly bias an endpoint comparison since January is almost always colder than September. So the article text might be misleading - not a rare event with newspaper articles on technical subjects - but the chart is fine.

CaptainZapp 14y ago

You may not like the left leaning stance of the Guardian, which is fine. To compare it, however, with The Daily Mail is a bit ridiculous.

mibbitier 14y ago
I don't think so, The Daily Mail generally likes to make you feel scared. The Guardian generally likes to make you feel outraged. They're just playing on different emotions to sell papers. As regards quality, fact checking, bias, they're all very similar.
- kokey 14y ago
  I couldn't agree with you more. I believe the ability to spot the error and bias in the one while being blind to that of the other is a good indicator of a person's own bias.

adrianhoward 14y ago

I don't think that's quite fair. I see as much criticism of the Mail by right wing folk as left wing. The Times reader doesn't like the Mail much either in my experience. The right comparison to the Mail on the left would be the Mirror I think - not the Guardian.

glenra 14y ago

It seems obvious the chart starts in September so the reader can compare like to like. If the chart had started in January but ended with the most recent available month (September) that would dishonestly bias an endpoint comparison since January is almost always colder than September. So the article text might be misleading - not a rare event with newspaper articles on technical subjects - but the chart is fine.