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I don't understand the widespread commitment to liberalism among journalists. It seems there is a larger percentage of far left ideologues in media than SEIU.

It is just odd to me that so many people in any given profession would be so homogeneous in their beliefs.

It’s not enough for them to just report the news. They want to influence public opinion and national policy.

Who Owns the News Media?

1. Time Warner Inc. [CNN]
2. Walt Disney Company [ABC]
3. Viacom Inc.
4. News Corporation [Fox]
5. CBS Corporation [Westinghouse]
6. Cox Enterprises
7. NBC Universal [G.E.]
8. Gannett Company, Inc.
9. Clear Channel Communications Inc.
10. Advance Publications, Inc.
11. Tribune Company
12. McGraw-Hill Companies
13. Hearst Corporation
14. Washington Post Company
15. The New York Times Company
16. E.W. Scripps Co.
17. McClatchy Company
18. Thomson Corporation
19. Freedom Communications, Inc.
20. A&E Television Networks

After “graduating” from Publik Skul, almost all of them went to the same old tired liberal “journalism” schools, taught the same old tired liberal ”activism journalism” by the same old tired liberal college professors, on campuses where homogeneity is viewed not simply as something desirable, but pretty much mandatory.

They “graduate” without really having learned about journalism, but are very adept at pushing the liberal agenda, and know how to smack down perceived enemies of the state without a second thought.

Unbeknownst to almost all of them, they have been sold a bill of goods, having learned to become smooth practitioners in a propaganda machine that would make Joseph Goebbels green with envy.

When the final collapse comes (notice I said, “when”, not “if”), the Fourth Estate will collapse most grandly (as will most all of the university structure that regards themselves as the “elite”) along with the rest of us.

It'll be tuff for them, because not only will they possess few, if any, marketable skills in the post-apocalyptic world, but they'll be universally reviled and shunned.

Almost makes you feel sorry for them, huh?

Yeah - almost!

CA....

I don't understand the widespread commitment to liberalism among journalists. It seems there is a larger percentage of far left ideologues in media than SEIU.

A 'journalism' major is the absolute bottom of the academic achievement food chain. Is it any wonder that young liberals would gravitate to the career path that required the least application of critical thinking skills?

Being liberals they find no shame in lying, most damaging they lie to themselves as well and so delude themselves into thinking that they are doing good. They then selfrightously proceed to spread liberalism as a holy cause.

There is much truth in the old bromide;
If you are 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart.
If you are 30 and not a conservative, you have no brain.

Regards,
GtG

It is just odd to me that so many people in any given profession would be so homogeneous in their beliefs.

Conservatives can't get hired. Christians need not apply.

The quality of a democracy can't exceed the quality of the press. We are in deep trouble.

“It is just odd to me that so many people in any given profession would be so homogeneous in their beliefs.”

I think it’s a combination of two things. First, the liberals purposefully push their proteges to go into fields like journalism where they can exercise influence. Second, once they reach critical mass in field, liberals start ostracizing people with other beliefs and pushing them out of the field, or at least into the closet if they want to keep their jobs.