Veteran Washington Post Reporter to Make A Hasty Exit?: MSM Biases

The Daily News Record (VA) ^ | 9.28.06 | staff

[rface]

The mainstream media presents itself as unbiased, when in fact, there are built into it many biases and they are overwhelmingly to the left. Reporters vote Democratic by somewhere between 15 to 1 and 25 to 1.

Those statements sound like something Rush Limbaugh would say. But they were spoken by Thomas Edsall, a Washington Post political reporter for a quarter century.

In speaking with talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Mr. Edsall also noted that he is pro-choice and has never voted for a Republican presidential candidate.

Fortunately for Mr. Edsall, he is one of the long-time Post reporters who accepted a recent buy-out offer from the newspaper. If he hadn’t, the newsroom might have become a hostile place for him.

He also said that that journalists have an inherent "suspicion" of the military and agreed "to a certain degree" that Fox News and conservative radio became so popular because of the liberal slant of most major newspapers and the television networks.

Good thing he is retiring. When he exits The Post, he may have a horde of angry reporters running after him.

[JeeperFreeper]

Mr. Edsall sounds honest to me. IMHO, it's not so much the MSM bias that irks me, but the blatant denial of its existence that puts a burr under my saddle.

[rface]

I agree

[misterrob]

And the way that they insult our intelligence with the way that they report stories and the arrogance so many of them hold on to that they know better than the rest of us.

[NickatNite2003]

More likely, knives in his back..and not only figurative.

[GoforBroke]

Interview with Hugh:

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Transcript_Page.aspx?ContentGuid=2a63c078-2e33-46d8-b85a-a91a5257fca2

[OldFriend]

Doesn't take much courage to be honest when you are on your way out the door.

[LexBaird]

Mr. Edsall sounds honest to me.

If he were, this supposedly professional reporter wouldn't have waited for retirement before reporting this information. The public, after all, has an inviolate right to know, doesn't it? Oh, I forgot. Rules don't apply to the media.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Hugh Hewitt is the master. He has done amazing work getting people to say stuff on the record that I thnk they had no intention of saying. His blog is a "must read" and his show is a "must listen." Rather than just bloviate over the same stuff all the other talk radio hosts are bloviating about, Hewitt actually reports and actually gets news made on his program, and advance the conservative cause in some way almost every day.

Tom Edsall stepped all over his own book with this interview, but the way Hewitt methodically questioned him was brilliant. Edsall could not get out of it without telling the truth about his own bias and that of his fellow reporters. I am thrilled that some print media are picking up on this.

[auboy]

Doesn't take much courage to be honest when you are on your way out the door.

Then we should be expecting a courageously honest Keith Olberman any minute now.

[billhilly]

Edsall is one of those that he is identifying. He is hard core.

[OldFriend]

LOL......do you know something I dont' know. He was already fired from ESPN if I'm not mistaken.

He's totally looney but the left loves that stuff.

[roses of sharon]

The MSM are not biased.

They are political orgs, who hire political hacks to pose as journalists, to run a 24/7 political campaign.

For the last 40 years.

They will not be honest, because what the do works beautifully.

So much so that we even speak with anger and shock at their behavior, and we would not feel that way when speaking about the DNC.

It would be entirely expected with a political party org such as the DNC.

The MSM has us over a barrel, we have no way to reach the public as they do, with Hollywood and Academia working hand in hand.

All we can do fight small battles, and wait for their slow death.

[eureka!]

Agreed on HH. Great interviewer, to the point of polite interrogation. I heard this one and Edsall was so surprisingly candid. Hugh was too. Know we know why....

[auboy]

LOL.

Just wishful thinking on my part. In an honest world, he'd already be out the door and locked up in a padded cell somewhere.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cue Captain Obvious...

[OldFriend]

Now that Glenn Beck is beating even the spitter in ratings, I'm hopeful that there will be more sane people on the various cable channels.

FNC is wearing thin. Glenn is a fresh face with a fresh approach.

[Finny]

Hugh's gentle, civil, but ruthless cross-examination techniques on liberal guests cause them to figuratively eviscerate themselves on national radio. It's delightful! Hugh IS the master in this regard.

[Rummyfan]

Well! Now if Dana Milbank, EJ Dionne, Richard Cohen, and just about the entire editorial staff, and most of the local news and sports staff, joined him, and were replaced with even moderate middle-of-the-road reporters, I might consider - consider! - subscribing.

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???