“We didn’t expect this from Koppel. “
Sarcasm????
They want to study us because the realize their futures now aren’t in control by devious liberals and that money for this and that has to come from somewhere. They aren’t doing this to reexamine their principles; they are reexamining it to adjust their scam. Do not trust them, especially the ones in liberal and social disciplines.
Clearly, academics thought that journalists were simply honest, unbiased objective reporters of facts.
Now the academics realize that the world is a little more nuanced:
On the one hand, you have honest, unbiased objective reporters of facts.
and on the other hand,
you have far-right, dangerous, crazy people with far too much influence in the world.
They only want to study conservative media so they can fight it more effectively. They lost badly in the last election and must find a way to trick voters in 2020, which is difficult to do since 60% of voters don’t believe anything the Democrat media and polling companies produce.
What conservative journalism?
Each one, teach one!
Lesson one:
They need to understand that they are not the liberals, we are.
The proper name for them is “cosmo-totalitarian”, “cosmo-fascist” or “leftists.”
Explains a lot, including their demands for “safe spaces” and cognitive dissonance over racism. Seems many of them simply don’t conceive of conservatism et al as anything other than a moral aberration - and since their morality is based on atheism, they cannot accept that conservatives et al are anything but a lower, inept, and dangerous life form. It’s just a new form of the classic norm of cultures viewing outsiders as sub-human.
Many of these social progressive academics imagine they are kings and have no idea they have “no clothes.” They exist in geographical pockets and social circles of progressivism where few to none challenge their ideas. To them, testing their concepts in the fire of a true crucible of ideas is terrifying.
The rest of them are fully cognizant of the fact they are naked and encourage others to strip off their clothes as long is it advances their subversive cause: globalism, redistributionism, Euro-style socialism, Marxist-progressivism, anticapitalism, et al.
I found a local (Univ. North Texas) journalism student at a recent Republican Party monthly meeting. I introduced her around and arranged for her to interview our Congressman Michael Burgess.
She subsequently wrote a very nice, thorough, and accurate, piece on him for the college paper.
I then discovered her faculty advisor and wrote him an email congratulating her on her work, and of course him on his leadership.
:-)
Wild wild wildlife
Another is that the television-bound American lumpenproletariat is unable to find other sources of news despite the advent of talk radio that first questioned that assumption and the advent of the Internet that has destroyed it. We weren't supposed to be smart enough to do that.
A third is that public opinion turns out not to be infinitely malleable after all, which a surprisingly popular assumption in academia despite its clear historical invalidity. So yes, of course they want to study this thing and probably should have been all along, because the academics are as out of touch as the media celebrities and don't understand why the rules they've been living by for so long no longer work.
With the leftist lock on academia, I'm sure they think we're now harmless enough to "study."
"Hmm! Conservatives! Such curious creatures! I marvel that they should think and write the way they do. I wonder why? Perhaps these treatises of arcane knowledge by Gramschi and Alinsky can supply me with the answers without having to actually interact with one."