Young conservatives looking to get into mainstream journalism face a very difficult path according to veteran journalist Bob Novak.Posted on 07/31/2007 1:23:29 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Young conservatives looking to get into mainstream journalism face a very difficult path according to veteran journalist Bob Novak.
The syndicated columnist made those remarks on a conference call with bloggers about his new book "The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington."
Novak blamed liberal discrimination which he said forces young conservatives to remain "in the closet" if they hope to have a career in media.
"One of the big differences in 50 years is that the liberals have now filtered into the executive ranks of journalism. And so if you go into journalism now not in the closet but out in the open as a conservative, you're going to have a hard time getting a job, believe me."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
No news here.
“Young conservatives looking to get into mainstream journalism”
With he crap that passes as mainstream journalism today, why would anyone want to do that. I think conservatives and the market is forcing a change to what mainstream is and young conservatives need to lead that pack, not just join it.
“Young conservatives looking to get into mainstream journalism”
With the crap that passes as mainstream journalism today, why would anyone want to do that.
I think conservatives and the market is forcing a change to what mainstream is and young conservatives need to lead that pack, not just join it.
True McCarthyism comes from the left
The Conservative Journalist, whoever they are, could easily take on the editors by calling them out in Moderate or Conservative publications. Publish memos, documents and examples. There is still a healthy 20-30% of the General Population that believes the MSM is fair and balanced.
But, but, but, I heard on the evening news that liberals are the most tolerant people in the country!!
“True McCarthyism comes from the left”
As demonstrated by the “McCarthyism” McCarthy, himself, suffered.
Journalism is a noble profession, properly executed. Mark Twain came from the ranks of journalists for one small example. Fact checking and editorial standards are valuable. It’s sad that the communists long march through the institutions has gutted those very institutions and made them valueless.
I don’t need someone spouting opinions and slanting the freaking news. I need the freaking news; I can form my own opinions, thank you. It’s time to return to unbiased reporting. Frankly, this media, while very liberal, is also protective of (or buying into the bs) of the government. I want the media to be the watchdog of the government. Can’t recall the last time I read an article about the size of the deficit. Is anybody watching government spending?
What is true McCartyism?
What is McCarthyism?
Yes, I recently read a story on the deficit...that it is shrinking.
Deficit articles were relevant only while the GOP controlled Congress.
The original is worthwhile further down its page -
Robert Novak:
“When I set out with my first paper in the summer of 1948, for the Joliet Herald-News there were in the newsroom there about two or three people who had ever been to college. Journalism was not an educated person’s game. So we’re much better educated, we’re sophisticated, we have people with graduate degrees - they know a lot more but are they better reporters than the others? I rather doubt.
They don’t seem to be interested in reporting what’s really happening on a day-by-day basis. Particularly, congressional reporting has gone way downhill. I thought the coverage of the farm bill where, for example, the first time since 1933, a tax increase was attached to a farm bill. Now isn’t that an interesting thing to put into the story? I didn’t read that in any story anywhere. So I think there’s an awful lot of journalism that’s instead of reporting or investigating is bloviating, editorializing, opinionating, analyzing. Some people say that the news stories read more like columns than the columns these days. And to some extent, that’s true.”
Ken Shepherd, NewsBusters Executive Editor:
“I’d like to share two things from Novak’s chat at the Heritage Foundation today....
1) Citing NB’s findings about the media’s coverage of John McCain’s campaign woes, I asked Novak if he thought the media were just plain out of touch with the public about the immigration issue or whether it is an agenda item in the MSM to ignore how soft-on-illegal immigration stances are suicide for politicians, particularly Republicans and especially McCain. Novak agreed the silence was more an indication of adhering to an agenda that being unaware of the issue’s potency with the general public.
2) Asked by another participant for practical advice to young conservatives starting out as journalists covering Washington, Novak stressed the basics of old-fashioned reporting: persistence in placing phone calls to congressional offices, taking the time to develop reliable sources, both with members of Congress and their staff, and asking questions of those sources with the aim of soliciting information to report, not ‘gotcha’ questions that gaggles of reporters often toss out for a good sound bite or to advance a storyline.”
Novak’s right. To the MSM, “diversity” means a black liberal, a white liberal, a gay liberal, a brown liberal, an illegal liberal, and a “whatever” sexual liberal. In short, absolutely no diversity of philosophy, ideas, opinions, or beliefs.
Yet later in his life, like most artists, he revealed his socialist leanings.
There was a time not long ago that few people could write/type — but now virtually everybody can produce perfect copy — and media people have become redundant at these lower levels. Reporters now can be bumped up to editors because the subject of the story is probably the best reporter of that story — rather than the journalist trained to make every story sound exactly like every other.
What is missing is the unique perspective and insight that is the heart and soul of every story. And so we have these soulless and superficial stories told with no sensitivity to the real issues — but told in the predictable style and format — manipulated to confirm what the reporter already knows. They’re not there for the learning experience but are only interested in what angle they can develop — with those facts incidental to their creative/journalistic license.
So a lot of people don’t go to the newspapers anymore if they have a story to get out because they know it is going to sound nothing like what they want to say — but will revolve around the reporter as the focal point of the story. That’s the megalomania of those working in the mainstream media now (matched only by those in public life) — who think the world turns on their TV or reads the newspaper, only to see what’s happening in their life.
So they cannot understnad when the public cries, “Get out of the way, Dan (Helen), so we can see what is going on in the world — and not just in your career ambitions to prove you are the smartest person in the world and should therefore be President of the United States and maybe the whole world.”
In a related story, it has been proven today that the Pope indeed is Catholic.
You’ve got to give the communists/socialists credit. They have infiltrated and pretty much control the media, Hollywood and education.
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