"Liberal Media": Could the Charge Have Had Its Run? (Ultra-Liberal Geneva Overholser is back!)

Geneva Overholser is the woman that is so left-wing she resigned from the board of a journalism organization because they gave an award to Brit Hume. It was heavily covered on FR at the time (in February 2004 I believe).

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There, particularly in combination with post 9/11 hyper-patriotism, it has done a lot of damage -- the sort of damage the Times acknowledged.

Yes, but damage to whom, Geneva?

That the old "liberal media" charge is largely hooey, and dangerous hooey at that.

Wrongo, Over-hoser. The shoe fits, and you're stuck wearing it.

She is either an idiot or a liar. Did she not used to work for the Klinton administration.

America's dawning comprehension of the media's leftist mendacity is one of the great unfolding stories of our time. The leftists hate this and want it to go away.

Alas, their only solution is to tell some more lies, which isn't going to help all that much...

Ken Auletta wrote a New Yorker piece of June 7 ("Big Bird Flies Right") showing how far from fitting the label is, even in an organization supposed by the right to personify it: PBS

OK, so now NPR is a right wing media organization? So the Dims will vote with us to remove all funding?

Well, since a liberal says that the NYT isn't tough enough of Bush, then that PROVES that the NYT is balanced, right?

Wrongo, Over-hoser. The shoe fits, and you're stuck wearing it.

Say, isn't that something of Bill Clintons stuck to the bottom of it?

Post 9-11 hyper-patriotism, that is just how a socialist liberal WOULD view it.

That the old "liberal media" charge is largely hooey, and dangerous hooey at that.

Of course it's "dangerous" to those who like to use the media for propaganda. People might stop believing them! Then the media would lose its power. Can't have that. Must... hide... bias.

The notion has been repeated so often and with such effectiveness that it has come to be widely accepted

As are many true things.

The increasingly evident truth... is that the media are anything but the never-listen-to-a-Republican types the liberal-media accusation makes them out to be.

No one ever said the media never "listens" to a Republican. In fact they love to listen to them so they can distort what they say, selectively edit, etc.

Ken Auletta wrote a New Yorker piece of June 7 .... "On the Media's" Brooke Gladstone did a piece on the Auletta story.

...and now Geneva Overholser writes a "piece" on the Gladstone story...

the opposition is now coming "from a new quarter, from within the CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) itself, the very institution that was designed to protect it."

So wait, her point is that since (I'll assume this is true) there are voices within the CPB accusing it of bias, that proves the CPB has no bias?

Who is this chick? Does she have a brain?

Don't you just love how liberals reference themselves to justify their arguments? The title of this article could easily have been titled, "'Liberal Media'?: Liberal Media says 'No!'"

This womyn was probably one of those NY lib'rals that was shocked that GW won the election because "no one she knew voted for him".

Freeped.

Talk radio is biased to the right - who would even deny it. Old media is biased to the left - who would deny the obvious. Ooooops, I guess some on the left would.

So is this gal saying that even though she and her cronies are leftwing, there is no leftwing bias? That takes some gall.

So, what proof does Ms. Overholser provide that the media is NOT liberally biased? Her word, and the word of other leftists. Wow, I'm convinced now!

The LAST thing the media wants is a look at the evidence on this issue, for their staggering liberal bias is indeed something that CAN be proven empirically and beyond doubt.

MM

"The notion has been repeated so often and with such effectiveness that it has come to be widely accepted"

This is exactly how the media gins up outrage and converts incidents into scandals. Conversely, if a true scandal gets scant coverage, it never attains the stature of a true scandal, as we saw while Clinton was president. You've got to admit, when it comes to transforming lies and rumor into 'truth', this lady knows whereof she speaks. She's a pro...

A media shenanigans & media schadenfreude ping.

The fight will contunue till the last leftie resigns in disgust.

She's Eric Alterman's twin sister. As someone said of Alterman, he's so far left, that he sincerely finds the media "conservative." Ditto for Geneva, or should I call her, "Havana"? However, Alterman and Overholser are also dishonest as he**, since they are both Stalinists, but will never admit to it publicly. Such an admission would, shall we say, "qualify" their media criticisms in some readers' minds.

These leftist pigs just can't seem to understand that we on the Right have an implacable score to settle with the liberal media.

For decades, they have slandered and belittled anyone or anything who has dared to stand up for America and Americans, or to resist their LSD-hippy fantasy world they want to impose on us.

My message to the illiberal media: "It's payback time, (expletives deleted for good taste)! And we won't quit hammering you until you have been crammed into the dustbin of history, just like your communist heroes who tyrannized half the world for 70 years."

If the leftist media wants a fight, they're about to bite off more than they can chew. There are millions more of us, we have most of the guns and money, and it's time for revenge.