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Is Media Bias Headed for the Ash Heap of History?

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Not likely with the left wing students graduating out of left wing journalism departments. That's where the problem is, and it's a subsidized problem immune from market forces. Were I given a billion dollars and asked to start a national TV network, the biggest problem would be finding people suitable to staff it.

Then conservatives everywhere will be saying “wow, I never thought I’d see the day when I liked the way Dan Rather reports the news.” And it could happen much sooner than any of us think.

That means pigs will fly sooner than we think. Ha.

It may happen... though before it does I would expect to see the bolsheviks consuming each other first - this is the first sign of an impending collapse. Come to think of it, it is already happening in that Goldberg has betrayed his former comrades, Jerry Rivers hasn't been seen or heard of for a while and the big media bolsheviks are taking turns sniping at one another. Bolsheviks ALWAYS turn on each other when the machine starts to break down.

You know all those fair and balanced reports on tv news will disappear the minute Bush's poll numbers drop. At this point, it would be ratings suicide to blast him, but 90% approval won't last forever, and the media nudniks will be out with their thousand small knives again in full force.

I get a laugh from local newspersons who try to smile while reporting something good about Bush. Bad actors. It's obvious that they have real problems mouthing complimentary words.

This guy obviously has no contact with journalism "students." I do. Here are a few of the most memorable quotes from my dealings with the future dans, cokies, peters, toms, and bernies:

"The Constitution wasn't written for me...They kep' people like me fo slaves" (Big surprise--an Ethnic Studies major!)

"If I heard that Bush did coke, I would run the story in a second..." (Not ONE could coherently explain the difference between a rumor and an allegation correctly.)

"What is the point of the electoral college, anyway? Do we really need it anymore?" (This guy wants to write for the New York Times...)

"They went after clinton for nuthin'"

The journalists of the future I have run into are ignorant of history, illiterate, angry, small-minded liberal losers.

Imagine today's journalists with none of the morality of today's media,(what little they have to begin with) no practical knowledge of history or proper English language, and very little work ethic, and you have the media of the 21st century.

I'm not as optimistic as the writer is. As previous commenters have noted, it's mostly lefties who go into broadcast journalism (yes, we have Brit Hume, John Stossel, and a few others, but not many). However, the rise of FOX provides some competition, and, if FOX broadcast adopts the programming of Fox Cable News, this could really put a nail in the coffin of CBSNBCABC.