Posted on 10/21/2017 12:42:02 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Most reporters and editors are liberal — a now dated Pew Research Center poll found that liberals outnumber conservatives in the media by some 5 to 1, and that comports with my own anecdotal experience at National Public Radio. When you are liberal, and everyone else around you is as well, it is easy to fall into groupthink on what stories are important, what sources are legitimate and what the narrative of the day will be.
This may seem like an unusual admission from someone who once ran NPR, but it is borne of recent experience. Spurred by a fear that red and blue America were drifting irrevocably apart, I decided to venture out from my overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood and engage Republicans where they live, work and pray. For an entire year, I embedded myself with the other side, standing in pit row at a NASCAR race, hanging out at Tea Party meetings and sitting in on Steve Bannon’s radio show. I found an America far different from the one depicted in the press and imagined by presidents (“cling to guns or religion”) and presidential candidates (“basket of deplorables”) alike.
I spent many Sundays in evangelical churches and hung out with 15,000 evangelical youth at the Urbana conference. I wasn’t sure what to expect among thousands of college-age evangelicals, but I certainly didn’t expect the intense discussion of racial equity and refugee issues — how to help them, not how to keep them out — but that is what I got.
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It’s a good thing he stopped before he got to me.
There are reasons I live alone. Bwwhaaahahehsewha!
This article seems weirdly schizophrenic.
As I read it, I think the guy finds out that all of his Liberal presumptions are wrong. Christians are not bad. Gun owners are not angry. Republicans are not racists. People in the heartland want to do good and help people.
And his conclusion is that Trump is wrong to attack the media, and it is too bad that so few people respect the media, because the media is so important to having a united country.
What?
Yeah.
After showing how wrong and one-sided the establishment media is, he still calls them “independent”.
It is obvious that the establishment media and the Democrat party are just part of the same group.
Sanctification can happen is small increments.
I do agree though, the final few paragraphs seem out of whack.
BFL
Well, he did have to say something to be not totally ostracized by the Social elites.
Yeah.
Because the various tea party movement factions all get together and have reunion meetings. Probably at the Napa auto parts store.
Was Jason Blair in the same class with you Ken?
The disconnect between the media gatekeepers and the non-urban public is startling, and the same is true of their chosen vessel, the Democrat party. When a guy ankle-deep in mud, fixing his tractor in rural Montana, can look at a billionaire New York real estate developer and vote him because "he's more like me", and be right, you have an idea of the magnitude of the disconnect.
It's an alternate reality inside the liberal bubble, and the worshipers and shapers of The Narrative are so invested in it that lack of congruence to the real world no longer matters to them; in fact, anyone who clears his throat and points out uncomfortable dissimilarities immediately becomes a class enemy to be crushed. That's pathologically self-destructive and used to be a fair working definition of insanity. It's a shared and comfortable delusion to be sure, but it's still nuts.
If I was a lefty politician, I would be very concerned about the Dem/Lean Dem response to the question about “Government is almost always wasteful and efficient”.
45%!!!
I bet if they slightly tweaked the question to “...frequently wasteful and inefficient” it would be over 50%.
Alternative headline: smug elitist and leftist man-child wanders outside of the bubble and sees the real world.
“The disconnect between the media gatekeepers and the non-urban public is startling..”
It is not just this, but something that popped up this week really fascinated me.
The way in which normal people understand stories, and the way in which the leftist understand the same story, is quite different.
Two examples:
1. Bernie Sanders completely misunderstands the Robin Hood story as pointed out this week by Ted Cruz.
2. hillary Clinton completely misunderstands 1984 as is clear when why tries to reference it in her book
Liberalism is a mental disorder
For those who want to watch the beautiful shooting noted in the article (where the store worker didn’t even bother to put down his square while plugging Obama’s son).
http://www.dailywire.com/news/10036/watch-texas-clerk-shoots-armed-robber-while-never-chase-stephens
Regarding he story, the author is off regarding one thing: The MSM reporters are MORE THAN willing to go into the sticks when it suits their (i.e., Democrat) agenda. Lots of examples likely, but here are two that immediately come to mind -
1) The “Farm Crisis” when they could claim Reagan/Bush were ignoring Americas family farms.
2) Cindy Sheehan - When they stayed with her in Texas while she was bashing Bush Jr., but then, starting in 2009, claimed that Texas wasn’t part of the United States and that she wasn’t a news story.
He says red and blue irrevocably *drifting* apart. No, Blue is ripping itself out of our formerly semi-peacable purple cloth and acetylene-torching we red threads until we’re forced to return fire.
W taking sides confirmed this a two-men-enter-one-man-leaves, so we may as well get it on. Really thought we were about to turn the tide, too.
Those graphs suggest that the liberals are insulating themselves in bubbles, further and further removed from reality. They also seem to be uneducated, in a very real sense. Where the purpose of education has traditionally been to develop critical thought, modern universities have been moving away from that model.
Truly thinking people would be able to look at, for example, the poverty programs, and ask themselves if the current system is achieving the stated goals. Objectively, it is not. A critical analysis suggests that the current system should be scrapped and something else tried, preferably informed by empirical evidence. But that’s not what liberals do. Their go-to solution is invariably to throw more money at the problem—oh, and punish the rich. There is almost no liberal ideology that supports the role of empirical evidence in solving problems.
None of this justifies the attacks from President Trump, which are terribly inappropriate coming from the head of government.
That said, it’s a pretty good piece and his basic point — that the media is failing the country because of its liberal bias — is correct.
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