Posted on 12/03/2004 10:46:39 PM PST by Libertarian Nationalist GOPr
I smell a rat.
Our friends in Old Media have been just a little too eager for my comfort to pick up on the "values voter" phenomenon. On first impression, this might seem like a minor breakthrough. After all, wouldn't it be a step in the right direction if the media elite were to become seriously introspective about its cultural tin ear? Wouldn't this constitute a significant victory?
As a radical solution to the problem of media insularity, Bernard Goldberg suggested in his book "Arrogance," only partially in jest, that one of the major networks relocate its news operations to Tupelo, Mississippi. The point being that unavoidable contact with the great unwashed of Tupelo would make journalists recognize that real, sentient beings actually have worldviews dramatically different from their own. No longer would they be shocked in the manner of the journalist who, upon hearing of Nixon's landslide reelection in 1972 is said to have exclaimed: "I don't see how Nixon could have won. Nobody I know voted for him!"
Well, wouldn't the sort of self-awareness implied by the media's sudden discovery of "values" put Peter Jennings and his cadre of fellow-travelers at least half-way to Tupelo and be cause for celebration?
Of course it would. But does anyone seriously believe these people to be capable of such honest self-appraisal? Do you really expect this sort of reexamination of notions previously held as axiomatic by such as Dan Rather (R.I.P)? Maureen Dowd? Paul Krugman? The L.A. Times Editorial Board?
Me either.
No, I fear something more insidious is at work here....
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