Posted on 07/15/2006 8:01:23 PM PDT by FairOpinion
That a left-of-center bias grips the old media is undeniable. Too many years of content analyses and newsroom surveys close the case. So how do journalists in denial press on?
They accuse their colleagues of being "lap dogs."
It doesn't get more serious than the recent dispute over The New York Times's spilling of a classified counterterrorist program. But that spat with the administration, indeed over a serious breach of the national security, climaxed decades of the media's steady drift to the left.
Some prominent figures in the establishment media, lapsing into momentary honesty, do admit the diagnosis. The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings a few years ago spoke candidly about liberal dominance at the networks — and then went back to tilting his broadcasts against Israel.
Newsweek's senior editor Evan Thomas, in 2004, blurted out that his colleagues would boost Sen. John Kerry's vote tally.
A few strata below these media stars, however, you can find an orchestrated effort to distort reality — a practice in which the players are expert — into an accelerated left-directed agenda. According to a spate of books and a decreasingly important newspaper trade magazine, the problem — get this — is the media's rolling over for the Bush administration's war machine.
You read that right.
The purpose is clear: Defy journalists to prove they're not "lap dogs."
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
The MSM was so terribly upset over the disclosure of Plame's name, which was of a bsolutely NO adverse consequence to anyone, but cheerfully keeps disclosing top secret information, which does help the terrorists and undermines our ability to fight the terrorists.
lap dogs?
Helen Thomas pug
Dan Rather basset hound
Katie Couric squirrel
I suppose they consider they reporters who ran interference for clinton on everything from corruption to rape to be the equivalent of lassie or rin tin tin.
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| Public disclosure: Media are finally admitting their biases.
Creator of 'Mr. Sterling' Admits: We TV Writers Are '99% Leftist'
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/27/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
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Great Debate#9 Break up Microsoft?...Then how about the media "Big Six"? [ ... -Poll confirms Ivy League liberal tilt--
A poll by the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change in 1992, eighty-three percent of film and television writers, directors and producers voted for Bill Clinton. Eighty-three percent. The vote that Clinton received in the country at large, forty-three percent.
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