The Media Attacks on Rep. Delay - (how the WSJ has joined the attacks)

A.I.M.ORG ^ | MAY 5, 2005 | CLIFF KINCAID

[CHARLITE]

When the liberal media engage in a feeding frenzy against a conservative politician, journalists are always on the lookout for conservative publications that get drawn into the hysteria. Then they can make the claim that they are not engaging in just an ideological jihad against their political enemies. In the case of Rep. Tom Delay, critics have cited the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which weighed in with an editorial criticizing Delay for being a big government conservative.

That's quite funny because we have drawn attention to the fact that the Journal editorial page has become an advocate of big government, too. The Journal is benefiting from almost $5 million from the federally-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting to do a show for public television. In postcards to Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot, we noted that, "Your editorial page, which promotes free enterprise and an end to taxpayer subsidies for private corporations, used to be an advocate of de-funding public television and radio. Your parent company, Dow Jones, is so rich that it just paid $519 million for CBS MarketWatch. You should have financed your own show. We strongly suggest that you return to the principled conservatism that has guided you in the past. The money you take and the viewers you get, courtesy of the CPB, are not worth it."