Leftist comedian Bill Maher recently complained about a new app called Paper that aggregates your news on the basis of your reading history.

"Boy, does it make you stupider," said Maher. "Paper tracks the news you're interested in and gives you more of that and less of everything else, never burdening you with contradictory information or telling you anything new."

Know what? Maher's right. Such mechanized niche reading is dangerously insular. But what he doesn't seem to realize is that leftists like himself have been using an app that protects them from contradictory information for years. It's called The New York Times. When those Gray Lady dudes say, "All the news that's fit to print," they forget to mention that leftism is the central criterion of fitness. As Ann Coulter has pointed out, the paper doesn't even print letters from conservatives!

The left has dominated the delivery of news for the past five decades. It's only recently that media proliferation has begun to allow other voices to be heard. How does the left feel about this democritization of information? Let's take a brief survey of their most recent reactions.

Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza made a hit movie arguing that Barack Obama's vengeful anti-colonialism rendered our president an enemy of American strength and prosperity. D'Souza has now been indicted and is threatened with seven years in prison for a campaign donation infraction which, even if real, would be a harmless bagatelle.

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