High Bias: "Mainstream" reporters aren't just liberal – they're fanatical.

The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | July 12, 2004 | Orson Scott Card

[GOPJ]

They've deluded themselves into believing prizes are the equal of respectful readers. Fools.

The Stone Age press is the only business in America that believes it can insult 60% of it's customers.

[Tamzee]

I do not believe the usual rhetoric that the media doesn't know it is biased that I have heard so many times. They freaking well know they are and are doing all they can to destroy this President and his administration. No question about it, they have an evil agenda and they know exactly what they are doing.

Bump to that :-)

[nopardons]

bttt

[ForGod'sSake]

I'd say he gets it.

FGS

[Bonaparte]

Excellent! Thanks for posting this, quidnunc. I don't know what happened to Mr. Card in recent years, but I love it. The man is on fire!

[Sonny M]

The left sure is pulling all the stops out in this election year. If they lose the election, I expect riots in Beverly Hills and Greenich Village.

I can guarantee riots and suicides, and also leftist acts of terror.

These people are so emotionally invested in this, that anything else but Kerry winning would short circuit them.

Some of them are starting to feel like Bush could win, so they are compensating themselves to the false rumor or fairy tale that the machines will be rigged so the republicans can win, this is just so they can have a fall back.

For gods sake, I was talking to a girl in a bar, she couldn't even concieve the possibility Bush will win (she also thinks he'll lose in a landslide), when I got her to just imagine for one second, a what if bush wins scenario, she started to cry hysterically.

[GeronL]

All the crying will be fun to watch

[lainde]

bttt

[lainde]

Thanks for the ping!

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[hang 'em]

For gods sake, I was talking to a girl in a bar, she couldn't even concieve the possibility Bush will win (she also thinks he'll lose in a landslide), when I got her to just imagine for one second, a what if bush wins scenario, she started to cry hysterically.

Hey, Wo Wo... Now that's the time to move in baby, YEAH!!!! You know what I'm say'n. Yeah baby, Yeah!!!!! She need help. Stick it to her!!!! SHe beggin fo'it. Liberal babes need serious attention.

[MeekOneGOP]

FOX NEWS, FOX NEWS...WAAAAAAAAHHH

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What makes the liberal bias in the mainstream media so pernicious is that they deny that they're biased and insist that their twisted version of events is "reality," and anyone who disagrees with them is either mentally or morally suspect. In other words, they're fanatics. And, like all good fanatics, they're utterly convinced that they're in sole possession of virtue and truth.

The "mainstream media" convey the perspective that they do because that perspective - "the sky is falling!" - attracts attention. If that perspective is untrue, there really is no need for "mainstream journalism" at all, you can just walk past the newsstand without buying the paper.

And the "mainstream media" are "mainstream" because among themselves they do not compete on the basis of perspective but only in how they present the perspective that "the sky is falling." They do compete, most vigorously, with conservatives on the basis of perspective. They claim the turf of "objectivity" - more or less the same thing as wisdom - exclusively to their own cabal. A cabal which coalesced naturally around the perspective which was most profitable for journalism to project, irrespective of its relation to truth in historical context.

[Tolik]

Wall Street Journal reprints Orson Scott Card article  [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Orson Scott Card political articles]

Links to the previous FR discussions of this article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1149080/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150103/posts

 

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping! Outstanding comments bump!

[IamConservative]

Making up a bunch of lies about Bush and calling it a documentary made Moore many millions, this guy is probably thinking; Why not?

It is clear most people will be drawn to what they believe and see that as the truth.

When it comes to news involving anything political, very few people think about and view things objectively. Politics is art, not science.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for the ping.

[Valin]

I do not believe the usual rhetoric that the media doesn't know it is biased that I have heard so many times.

At least according to Bernard Goldberg they really don't think they're biased in reporting the news. Strange as it sounds they really don't see themselves as all that leftist. They live in a bubble where everyone they know thinks the way they do.

Think of it this way, where you live and work 98% of the people you associate with think the same way you do, after a while you start to see your views as moderate, centrist, mainstream.

I read a poll a while ago saying that conservatives get their news from a broad spectrum of sources(Mainstream papers, news mags., talk radio, the net) liberals don't.

[Valin]

There really needs to be another term for the "mainstream media".

What gets me and saddens me is (like all freepers) I'm a news junkie, but it's getting to the point where I can't watch/read it.

[HamiltonJay]

Last time I took an IQ test, I was well in the "Genius" category.... but if calling CNN a biased bunch of claptrap makes me ignorant... then I guess I am ignorant.