WaPo Columnist: Yes, Journalists Lean Left, and Reason Why 'Would Infuriate You'(STUNNING)

NewsBusters ^ | 10/24/2006 | Tim Johnson

[wideawake]

Absolutely delusional.

[tobyhill]

I think all the MSM should be considered a 527 organization.

[subterfuge]

Well of course it's true. As Rush once said, they're all idealist moonbats that think they're going to save the world from all its troubles. (Rush didn't say "moonbats" though)

[RedCell]

Note: When the media-bias issue was raised in one long-ago chat, Weingarten asserted, essentially, that journalists are more liberal than the average person because they are better informed than the average person.

Uh... can I get a barf bag, please. Can you super-size that? Yeah, thanks.

Is there no end to their arrogance?

[sageb1]

"Note: When the media-bias issue was raised in one long-ago chat, Weingarten asserted, essentially, that journalists are more liberal than the average person because they are better informed than the average person."

That is laughable.

[frogjerk]

Absolutely delusional.

Note: When the media-bias issue was raised in one long-ago chat, Weingarten asserted, essentially, that journalists are more liberal than the average person because they are better informed than the average person.

And elitist.

[tobyhill]

The only way it will end is when they lose all readers and then they can do what some mental homeless people do, talk to themselves.

[kinghorse]

All I need to know about the problem with the media can be traced back to an interview given by Tim Russert to the dark haired female reporter who used to sit on the Mclauglin Report panel. Can't think of her name but this is her reason for getting into Journalism - To influence policy. She said she grew up helping to raise an autistic sibling and decided she could do the most good for the cause by being a journalist and making people aware.

Remove yourself from the good cause of helping people who have autism in their lives and consider it is not the reporter's job to influence public policy. Too many people who get into the media today see it as a shortcut to political power. That is dangerous.

[Night Hides Not]

I think all the MSM should be considered a 527 organization.

They've been "non-profits" for quite a while, haven't they?

[omega4412]

...we think the Dems are better this year...

It would never occur to them to ask whether the Dems or Reps are better this year. Do fish ask whether the water is wetter this year?

[tobyhill]

lol, so true.

[Doomonyou]

Is there no end to their arrogance?

No.

[evad]

"When the media-bias issue was raised in one long-ago chat, Weingarten asserted, essentially, that journalists are more liberal than the average person because they are better informed than the average person."

Well, according to the first rule of logic, we know that cannot be the answer so there must be some other reason "journalists" are liberal...and I think I know that answer.

[meyer]

This does not mean there is no subtle bias.

About as subtle as Goebbels or Pravda.

The bias is strong and obvious to anybody with an education beyond the 7th grade level. Unfortunately, that's only about 52% of the population.

[Jaysun]

I missed the part where he explained why journalist lean left. Certainly nothing that infuriated me.

[krunkygirl]

save

[tobyhill]

The point was that they are claiming to be smarter than most. It doesn't infuriate me either because this whole thing just shows how dumb they really are.

[WashingtonSource]

Liberal bias should disqualify one from being a reporter.

[mallardx]

Too many people who get into the media today see it as a shortcut to political power.

The media ran this country from 1993-2001. President Clinton took his directives from the Media, in return for fawning praise at every step.