Maher uses the C-words to describe Sarah Palin, donates a million dollars to Obama PAC and the press says nothing. 95 per cent of the press writers in America are the extreme leftist democrats. Non-extremist can not get jobs in the press. Today’s press are agents of the extreme leftist government in Amerika.
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between a “liberal” and a “moderate” and a “progressive.” Or between them and a socialist, for that matter. There is a difference between a “liberal” and an “objective journalist” - but only in the hat they are wearing. A “liberal” can become and “objective journalist” merely by getting a job at a newspaper or a broadcast news operation. No change of attitude is required. And, as you note, nobody but a “liberal” is able to get a job with a “mainstream” news organization.That is the natural result of the lack of ideological competition among journalists. And the lack of ideological competition among journalists is the natural result of the wire services. As Adam Smith pointed out,
People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices.That dictum emphatically applies to journalistsas much asmuch more than to other workmen. The wire services, after all, function as customers as well as suppliers to the journalists - so that the wire services define the style of journalism for all reporters. And calls that style “objectivity."