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)
That is laughable.
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.
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?
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.
I missed the part where he explained why journalist lean left. Certainly nothing that infuriated me.
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"Yes, we are somewhat liberal, and it will totally surprise you why.... We think we are SMART and you are dumb." hahahah.
In my experience, professional journalists are less informed about many subjects than people of comparable intelligence and education in other fields. In science, history, business, military affairs, and global geo-politics, professional journalists are notoriously ill-informed and gullible.
The reason is not hard to figure out. Their education is in how to communicate and not in the subjects of that communication. Further, media of all kinds are phenomenally competitive and this tends to skew the personality profiles of those who are likely to be successful. The real reason for political and social bias in the media has to do with the need to set oneself apart in simple, indeed simplistic, terms; and to cater to the commercial requirements of advertisers. The latter is often unconcious but advertising requirements do favor certain biases and attitudes.
For more on this very important issue, I could not do better than to recommend Thomas M. Franks' landmark cultural history, The Conquest of Cool. This is a damning indictment of the media culture and Franks' status as a high-profile leftist only helps his credibility.
Alert the media!
Therein lies the core of this article. Most everyone is biased. Few journalists will admit their biases. I think this means that most journalists are not "good writers".
This business that they lean sometimes to the left is preposterous. Just switch democrats for republican in the article and ask if you have never, or would you ever see an article like that?
Do you see the media going ga-ga over Republicans as they have democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama? Using terms like Brilliant, Genius, like they do over the democrats. Not, just no you don't, but h*ll No!
The bias is so blatant, especially in election years, but it is translating into few viewers and fewer reader every month. The Main Stream Media are dying, it is no longer a question of will they die, but when.
Read: Journalists loathe the religeous right.
"Our ratings and subcriptions are in the toilet, but gosh darnit, we're better, we're smarter, and people like us!"
Public disclosure: Media are finally admitting their biases.
D.C. journalists favor Kerry 12 to 1: N.Y. Times informal poll confirms media lean left
Creator of 'Mr. Sterling' Admits: We TV Writers Are '99% Leftist'
Professor's Study Shows Liberal Bias in News Media
No Bias in Media, ha ha, tee hee
-Poll confirms Ivy League liberal tilt--
From my own files:
-The Old Grey Info-Slut... the NYT/Jayson Blair Affair--
-The Access of Evil-- CNN's Duplicity --
-That "Rush" to Judgment- Limbaugh Links--
Scams, Scalawags, and an all-too-gullible Public...famous frauds sold to America
-The lies of Paul Krugman-( BLAIR, BRAGG, DOWD ... KRUGMAN? ) --
-60 Minutes to Infamy- those forged memos and The Shot Heard Round the World--
Statements of absolutes like always and never are most often complete BS.