Posted on 09/29/2004 7:13:17 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko
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"Journalism is the only profession of which I am aware that ignores public attitudes. How long could a restaurant stay in business if it had bad food, dirty restrooms, high prices and lousy service, especially if a competitor opened across the street with everything the other place doesn't have?"
Well, I guess they will do what liberals do best when they go down the tubes - figure out a way to ask for some sort of government bailout.
Elites think we should know what to think by what they tell us to think...even if it is biased, based on lies or spun...They don't even recognize their own bias.
We are not worthy enough to make our own decisions based on all the facts.
Yeah, the left has depended on the education-media complex to help wag the dog. That is, poor education coupled with a biased media... But even a poor and liberal education produces a large number of conservatives because family values exist independently of the media complex. Mostly because Christians and other strong religious faiths maintain family values despite the attack on the emphasis of family and communities by the left.
Wonder what today's excuse is!
Answer: Racist, discriminatory, and even segregationist.
Where is the "affirmative action" program for conservative journalists? It doesn't take much imagination to expect that when two students, one liberal and one conservative, apply to a media organization for their first job in journalism, or when two new employees are considered for their first promotion, through use of code words and office-gossip, the interviewers know who is the smart, witty, progressive one, and who is the dullard, the "overly religious", "right-wing" conservative, and the latter is either never hired, or not promoted when hired.
Moreover, how many journalism students change majors in college when they're educated enough to figure out that no-one like themselves every gets a job with a major media organization?!
Wouldn't it be nice to see a major news organization do an in depth story on this topic? Not even Fox News would have the courage to in effect, cover their own profession with the same scrutiny that the rest of America deals with every day.
SFS
Don't forget modern talk-radio. IMO, It was the first release-valve for mainstream America to express their outrage at media bias, political corruption, unresponsive leaders, moral decay, etc. Rush was a national phenomenon before cable (CNN) had any potent competitors and before the Internet had its growth explosion.
Totally agree. Talk radio lead the way, followed by the Internet, then Fox News, in that order.
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