"The opinion pages have strong conservative voices; the editorial board includes centrists and conservatives; and there were editorials critical of Obama. Yet opinion was still weighted toward Obama. It's not hard to see why conservatives feel disrespected.
Are there ways to tackle this? More conservatives in newsrooms and rigorous editing would be two. The first is not easy: Editors hire not on the basis of beliefs but on talent in reporting, photography and editing, and hiring is at a standstill because of the economy. But newspapers have hired more minorities and women, so it can be done."
Oh, great: now the USA needs an affirmative action like effort just to let "conservatives" into America's MSM.
Listen: conservatives don't expect nor even want to be included in your mess. We read and/or view the MSM just to keep track of our enemies.
God Bless what is bound to be years of resistance by the true conservative movement: we are as foreign to liberals as the current crop of "immigrants" they embrace.
Hahahahaha, may it continue.
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Choke on it Deb.
There is no "bias perception" to remedy. There is plenty of bias to remedy.
Poor darlings.
Your jobs are at risk because we won’t buy your damn papers anymore.
In what fantasy world does anyone at that paper think they have the influence to change our perception of who they are? tell you waht WAPO. Go ask George Allen if he thinks you are a without prejudice.
News of the dying Washington Post and coffee, a great start to the day.
Acne crippled adolescents are know-it-alls too.
we dropped our subscription a couple years back over the AbuGahrib coverage....we mainly subscribed for the sports page anyway....the Post was origionally a pro-Joe Stalin paper back in the 1930s...they haven’t changed that much over the years...since Watergate their editorial policy has been that America is evil/the Pentagon is evil/the CIA is evil/the troops are evil/NSA is evil/the FBI is evil ect.....who wants to pay money to read that stuff every day?
Deb would have seen the truth if she could have removed her face from barry’s lap for a few minutes... before the election.
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I wonder if the writer realizes he began with a sophistry. No serious person thinks the MSM were ENTIRELY to blame for McCain's defeat. However they certainly CONTRIBUTED to it.
It's the old straw man once again. And they wonder why we don't trust them either to report or to analyze the news.
The mainstream media were not to blame for John McCain’s loss;
Totally and uniquely responsible? No.
In bed with the Zero’s campaign with their legs waving in the air? Hail yeah.
So, if its only a perception, why have a remedy?
I don’t see how she squares the notion that liberal journalists want to change the world (which she admits in the column) with the notion that liberal journalists want to be objective and unbiased (which she claims in the column). The two are fundamentally at odds and can’t be reconciled. This is the basic disconnect in journalism right now and no amount of self-policing by Obama-voting ombudspeople or conservative affirmative action hires or prosecutorial editing will change it.
It greatly saddens me to observe the inability to reason demonstrated by our MSM pundits.
They have never had classes in which they were really challenged to think. They’ve never had weeks of trying to understand complex relationships.
As a result, they really believe that their one-level elementary school thinking actually maps to reality.
As my boss told me a couple of decades ago, "perception is reality."
All they did was to provide unlimited free advertising.
Liberals Lie. It's what they are trained to do.
Some quotes from a recent column by her, “An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR2008110702895.html
“But Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama’s acknowledged drug use as a teenager.”
and
“One gaping hole in coverage involved Joe Biden, Obama’s running mate. When Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, reporters were booking the next flight to Alaska. Some readers thought The Post went over Palin with a fine-tooth comb and neglected Biden. They are right; it was a serious omission.”
So, Debbie, now that you’ve showed us the things you did wrong, WHEN do you think your paper will dig into obama as you SHOULD have? Hmm? BTW, we could give you a dozen or so other omissions, starting with the elusive birth certificate.
Down with the leftist newspapers. Cancel your subscriptions, do not buy even the Sunday paper. You can find what you want on the free Internet. Encourage your family and friends to cancel. I have not had a paper subscription in 20 years. That TREND will continue.
Debbie, I have a solution. Send us copies of all your articles in each edition before publication. We will read, critique, and edit them for bias and return them to you quickly. No charge for this fee until you circulation climbs back to it’s level of two years ago. Then you pay us or you are on your own again.
Mediots like Deb in their little minds are the smartest people in the world. Their little biased minds view
conservatives as rude, dumb and not capable of logical thought processes.
The arrogance of mediots like Deb plus the incredible left bias for the left wing fishwraps will be their self inflicted fatal wounds.
So they continue their Dixie Chick Marketing Strategy re pissing off and turning off about 50% of their potential subscribers and a large % of advertisers, who are Republican.
I personally hope they never wake up and change their Dixie Chick Marketing Strategy if bias and hatred towards us, the stupid.
The stupid, who will cancell their subscriptions and stop advertising with those who lie to us and insult us daily.