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Nevertheless, we should be grateful to [Comedy Central's] jelly-spined executives for reminding us that the cardboard heroes of the American media are your go-to guys for standing up to entirely fictitious threats. But for real ones? Not so much.

How long have we known that "the American media" and "liberals" were joined at the hip? But we have struggled to articulate exactly why and how that is so. Here, Mark Steyn crystalizes the reason.

The thing that unifies American "liberals" and American journalism and is that each, in his own way, systematically makes fictitious "threats" out of entirely unthreatening fellow citizens and then "rescues" us from them. All "liberals," whether journalists (who assign the laurel "objective" exclusively to themselves) or politicians or intellectuals (whom journalists assign the laurels ("liberal," "progressive," or "moderate" according to what will the public will receive best) are natural allies in the endeavor to bring entirely safe phantom "threats" to light, and to book.

Cardboard heroes, every man Jack of them.

The Right to Know

[E.G.C.]

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[abb]

Until I can establish otherwise, I date the break point at 1964, when Henry Luce gave up his position as Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. He had sufficient conservative influence within the media industry to leaven the tendency of journalists to lurch leftward.

http://www.timemediakit.com/us/timemagazine/press/bios/luce.html

So far my research shows no other event or series of events that would explain it. IIRC, LS was working on a book that would establish about that time frame as when the media shed all pretense of being “objective,” if ever they were.

[Liberty Valance]

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[ForGod'sSake]

Thanks cIc. Steyn can certainly turn a phrase, all the while hitting a target dead center. I wish I had half his talent.

LS, I have been patiently awaiting your effort on the "History of the Media". It was my understanding from earlier comments it was to be a work to determine when, how and why the major media went left. The mechanisms that enabled the leftist media to effectively be the last man standing is of no small consequence IMHO. I don't believe it's an overstatement to claim they almost singlehandedly moved the country to the left and away from our founding principles and precepts. From the sound of it, you've encountered a large ball of string; a furball even.

Would it be a stretch to suggest the forces that were and are at work moving major media and many of our elected officials, primarily in DC, towards collectivism are one and the same? If these forces exist, and I believe they do, who and what are they? Properly practiced, investigative journalism would be a hoot, eh?