Amen, to that!!!!
re: Brando
Our young conservative prof. made an observation I had never really thought about...media is driven by people aged 40-60( people in the height of their careers and professions).
The elites live in NY, LA and DC.
They make the editorial decisions, and the things they care about are the "public agenda". (For old hippies recalling their youth and urban media "elites", Brando means something.)
Given that journalism is currently left oriented, what we see on tv or the press is what aging, elite leftist/liberals from the 60's and 70's care about.
The most liberal/left oriented 1% of the population is setting the agenda.
This depressed me, but then he offered a counter point
Media is shifting right, (witness Fox, Talk Radio, etc.) A new generation has grown up on conservative media.
Couple this conservative tilt with the kids of the Reagan era entering their careers during a boom in media and we will see a very interesting phenomenon from 2010-2030.
The editors and directors today started out with Kennedy, McGovern, etc.
The next wave will be Reaganites, and various flavors of conservatives.
Certainly Schools of Journalism will retain their liberal bias, but suprise!, the explosion of media has made traditional routes to media jobs irrelevant.
Within the next decade we will likely see political shows with a token liberal instead of the token conservative.....hehe
I don't know if he is right, but he sure irritates the %$#& outta the hippie PhD's on campus within observations like these.
Thankfully no Godfather fans have complained.
Yeah, he deserves some coverage, but not the lead story.