Posted on 11/13/2006 6:42:58 AM PST by Mike Bates
New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse, who covers the Supreme Court, has stirred up quite a debate by delivering a political diatribe disguised as a public policy speech. She has become living proof of liberal media bias, as if we needed any more proof that such a bias exists.
Although it was advertised as a speech to a group of fellow Harvard alums who were honoring her last June, she let it be known that she is an ardent feminist who sees pro-lifers as despicable human beings. She also expressed her opposition to President Bush's foreign policy in Iraq.
Greenhouse told the group that she had attended a Simon and Garfunkel concert shortly after the war in Iraq had begun, and had found herself crying throughout the second half of the concert. She realized that it was because she now felt that she had misplaced her faith in the notion that "our generation would do a better job" and not repeat the mistakes that so concerned her during the sixties. She said, "We were not doing a better job. We had not learned from the old mistakes. Our generation had not proved to be the solution. We were the problem."
If this is a reference to war and peace, Greenhouse must be upset because she thought that the country had learned the lesson of Vietnam-never to intervene in a noble cause again. She apparently thinks that Iraq could be better off under Saddam or the terrorists now threatening to take over the country. She's probably not unique in the media for holding that view.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent" (1962) made the advocacy point in journalism through the character "Frankly Unctuous", the prime time talking head news reader of the day (I always imagined David Brinkley as Frankly Unctuous). The charged words, the story placement, the tilt of the head -- all revealing liberal bias and interpretation in reporting.
This problem has been with us probably for the entire 20th century and will be a problem for all of this century as well. When journalists were elevated to "hero" status during Watergate, this slippery slope became even worse. Linda Greenhouse Gasbag should recognize the failure of her generation (and mine) was to embrace this claptrap called liberalism and moral relativism. We really are the worst generation.
Thanks for the giant pic. I needed that.
My candidate was Walter Cronkite, the old windbag.
Is that Jimmy Carter's love child? She could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence!
Is Jimmy into "love?" I thought he was strictly a lust man.
"she is an ardent feminist who sees pro-lifers as despicable human beings"
She needs to receive a color postcard each day of a baby's body torn limb-from-limb and then re-assembled on a table so the doctor can see "if he got it all".
Some of those babies would have been women, feminist!
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