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Will my shame ever end? (LOL!) ;)

Just to fill the background, I was a reporter/then page editor at a western tri-state paper for several years. Prior to that I was in Internet media (OHV/landuse issues).

My personal experience is that you have a couple dynamics at work.

1. Media outlets are fiefdoms for their owners. Period. I assure you that there is no honesty in modern reporting - at least reporting that actually hits the printed page/screen or TV newscast, for one simple reason. The modern ‘editor’ is nothing but an intermediary between the will of the ownership/publisher and what they WILL have written in their respective publications.

I have personally had several stories tanked in my career by the high command because the ‘truth’ of the story did not match the public position they wanted portrayed.

Second, the editors themselves are hired not for their skills, but because of their willingness to comply with edicts from above. The best Ed I ever worked under was pushed out for his refusal to cooperate and is still slimed to this day.

Third, I personally have experienced both sides of the fence - Internet and print journalism in a professional capacity - as an Editor and as a writer/reporter. I can tell you, and the facts we read daily (death of the Dino-media articles on FR), that the net is killing print/TV.

Now one must ask, in light of multi-million dollar losses and staggering declines in reader/viewership, why it is that the powers that be in traditional journalistic outlets refuse to change the game plan.

The answer is given above. Summed up, They do things ‘their way’ and their way is to promote two things - Agenda and personal profit.

“But Normie” you say, “If they are tanking in readership/ad dollars, where’s the profit?”

The top of the food chain slashes page counts and production costs mercilessly, but you notice they all get their bonuses at the end of the year. And you notice that in light of all the failing of their companies financially, they push ever harder to promote liberal ideals.

Regardless of liberal ideals and teaching to the contrary, 1+1=2 in reality.

Lastly, it is no secret that the vast majority of newsrooms are filled with libs. So one may ask, “They have to see this happening - budgets cut, layoffs ect., so why don’t they speak out in numbers? Why not expose the very people who screw them?”

Because as we all know, Liberal first, everything after. It’s for the cause. And it really is that simple.

Normie - Who vows to never reload again! ;)

Thanks for the insight Norm. I have often wondered what the hierarchy was in a newspaper and the like. You confirmed what I suspected. The challenge for us unwashed masses is that these towers of propaganda were/are virtually impervious to anything that we could do. What? Write a letter to the editor to complain about bias? It would have done no good to try to expose the editors or reporters, regardless of their political affiliation, because they serve at the will of the publisher or lose their jobs. The only way to "hurt" the print media was through revenue loss.

These people have largely been able to do their deeds with impunity. Until the Internet. Now they must compete or die. They will probably die. Good riddence.

And the what you describe about how the Higher-ups are only insterested in their personal profit and their agenda...just like the higher schools. With tenure, professors insulate themselves whilke protecting their LARGE paychecks. A dirty little secret about liberals is for all their altruistic pontifications, the first thing they will do when given power is loot the treasury.