Critical thinking?

I tend to read more right-leaning blogs than left-leaning. One thing strikes me about both: the uncritical acceptance of any event that happens to fit their point of view.

Take the recent case of a man assaulted in London by three men, apparently muslims. His story of the assault is upsetting enough, but the way the police refuse to follow-up makes the blood boil. If he insists on pressing charges, the police say that they will charge him with a violation of the race relations act.

Well, maybe. Every story has two sides, and one wonders what a fly on the wall of the police station would have seen. While the description of the events is calm and factual, how did he handle himself at the time? Were the police perhaps persuaded that he, himself was a loony? Was he ranting on more about the *ç%&* muslims and less about the assault? Clearly, he must have emphasized ethnicity, else the police would have known nothing of it.

I don't say his story isn't true. Perhaps it is just as he reported. The point is: the right-wing blogs that reported this event accept it "as is". They pose no questions, do not seek more detail. For example, if one knew the station where this took place, and the date and time of the report, one could ask the police for a response.

Bloggers are the new journalists. They demand critical thinking of the MSM - they also need to demand it from themselves...