This is a very good topic, one which I have been meaning to start a discussion on myself.
I too was incredibly aggravated by the 'flash on android sux' article that remained above the fold for some days. It is, as I commented, woefully wrong. It equates, in my mind, to someone complaining that their windows version of Office doesn't work on OS X. They were built for two separate platforms, why would you have any reasonable expectation it would work 100%.
But I digress from the real point; Macrumors is biased. This, I think is obvious, and I would expect nothing less from an Apple fansite. However, in the past 5 years I have been a community member, the bias has turned into shear propaganda.
Lets go over some history, please. First, it was a rumor site, and nothing more. A reintroduction of the cube (a la mac mini)? Powerbook G5 next tuesday? true rumors were, and remain, sparse. There wasn't a new rumor every other day.
Then the iPhone came out, and we see the second stage of macrumors: More frequent updates, concerning not just Apple/rumors, but AT&T, Verizon, as well as coverage of component manufacturers. More page views means more revenue for the site, as well as following what the readers want to see; That is, people want iPhone stories, so Macrumors provided iPhone stories.
However, there is a 3rd stage of Macrumors that I have noticed lately. It's a much less pretty of a picture. The rumors, and news reports, have begun to include editorials. Instead of a rumor of a powerbook G5, or an iPad 2, or even reporting on the health of AT&T's network through the use of stats, the site has started featuring more objectified stories. These stories include things such as AT&T's network is horrible, or Flash on Android is horrible, and back it up with anecdotal evidence.
Let me give some anecdotal evidence as well. I use AT&T, and can not remember the last time I had a dropped call on my end. My Verizon friends get dropped calls all of the time. Ergo, Verizon must suck. My girlfriend has an android phone and it can run flash on it, well, ergo it's better than an iPhone.
However, my viewpoints aren't the same as macrumors' editors viewpoints, and my opinions go unheard. What is beginning to happen, as I see it, is that instead of simple facts being reported on, we have editorials as well, masquerading as fact, that utterly bash anything that Apple doesn't like. I'm not going to say MR is on Apple's payroll - I think it's ridiculous - but the editor's have definitely been drinking Apple's Khool Aid recently, as macrumors doesn't even begin to be objective, but instead outright bashes any competition and blindly praises Apple.
Don't get me wrong, there is nothing with pro-Apple articles. However, there is a thin line between news, and editorials that are presented as fact, which macrumors is beginning to cross, and, to me, that is the equivalent to lying to people.
People such as Jessica or Wild Cowboy have been here since forever, and while I hate to call you out, you seem to forget while calling the OP a troll, that macrumors didn't always aim to sucker punch Apple's competition. This site has begun to cater more to people like *LTD* who don't see any viewpoint besides the one where Apple can do no wrong.
Add me to the list of people who don't like the direction this site is headed.
tl;dr: Macrumors is great for getting a pro-apple viewpoint, but weak when it comes to promoting anything that's remotely bad for apple, and additionally hides opinion and editorial behind a thinly veiled heading of 'news'. macrumors is becoming 'fair and balanced' in the same way that fox is 'fair and balanced'. while that's well within their rights to do so, i disagree with it.
