Even if Ms. Dowd doesn't care for Hillary Rodham, after Hillary wins the Dem nomination, Maureen will obediently fall inline with her fellow-traveling MSM chums, and do all she can to elect Hillary president. She dares not stray from the left-wing "plantation" (to use a Hillary term.)
What continually amazes me is how little actual freedom newspeople have. Their writing is tightly constrained within rigid PC and ideological limits; and, if they were to attempt to stray from the approved message, their careers might just do a u-turn.
Ironically, they are among the first to feel the shackles of the miraculous global collective commune that they continually nudge us toward.
One fine day, perhaps a few of them will notice this and publish a truly enlightening book.
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PC is the consensus of journalists, what they can all agree on. To stray outside of the consensus is to risk starting a flame war with other people who buy ink by the carload. Each stays inside the consensus so that they can retain the label "objective" which journalists bestow on each other. To question the objectivity of a fellow journalist who has not strayed from PC is to stray yourself. And then you are "not a journalist, not objective."