Liberals, as they call themselves, are really better off being called leftist statists.Yeah, well, now that we’ve settled that, we can take on the hard problems.
In reality, as you well know, socialists get positive labels such as “liberal,” “progressive,” and “moderate” from journalists who have those same attitudes/opinions themselves.The issue has always been, “why are all journalists that way?” The answer, once apprehended, is straightforward: Since journalists neither sew nor spin, they promote themselves by criticizing and second guessing those who do - and append positive labels on those who go along and get along with them. Journalists call each other, and themselves, “objective” - because, being unified thru the mechanism of the wire services, they can.The mission of the wires services - to conserve bandwidth in the transmission of news - is an anachronism in the age of microwave/laser communication. The wire services are therefore no longer “too big to fail” - and should be sued into oblivion because of their monopolistic nature, which was noted by SCOTUS in a case back in 1945.
Those “journalists” went through the same indoctrination that kids in English class are getting.