The fallacy in that is that the very definition of news is anticonservative. What is not interesting is no news. The fact that you did a day's work yesterday is not news; you work every weekday.Say you build houses. Your life's work might be tantamount to the complete construction of several houses (you don't do the whole job yourself, and you buy materials, but your own work output figures out to maybe as much as ten or twenty houses worth of effort over a lifetime. Your life's work will never make the newspapers except as ads for the houses you build. And the odds are that none of your houses will burn down in your lifetime. But for that very reason, it would be news if one of them did burn down.
You build the house gradually, but if it burns down the change is sudden and unexpected - it is news. People who go into the news business understand that they are in the bad news business. And they hammer out bad news on deadline. They don't just report because something happened, they report because the deadline is coming. There is something about that process that should creep a conservative out; it is negative and superficial.
And the third characteristic of journalism is its claim of objectivity. That should creep a conservative out for the simple reason that it is a vice - arrogance - to claim a virtue. And all "mainstream" journalists are in cahoots when it comes to claiming objectivity for mainstream journalism. You don't see NBC ripping CBS a new one over the fraudulent TANG memos; "the dog ate my homework" from CBS is greeted with perfect credulousness by the "tough" reporters of NBC.
Journalism is arrogant, negative, and superficial. There is no reason to expect that it will not be anticonservative. In fact, liberalism is simply politicians toadying up to journalists to get postive PR.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
Meida bias bump.
A question I asked on another thread I'd like youse guys to consider: Given the competing "media" since the early days of the republic until recent times, how and why did the "progressive" side come to prevail? Any thoughts on the subject would be appreciated.
FGS