“’liberals’ say things which help promote journalism, and journalists respond by saying positive things about ‘liberals.’”
That’s not it, exactly. Journalists themselves are liberals. So of course they say positive things about liberals, as they are in effect patting themselves on the back.
“’Liberals’ promote the idea that ‘society’ means nothing other than government.”
To put my main point in other, simpler, words, yes, they do. Which is precisely why the word “public” denotes government. You havbe liberals promoting this idea, and as I’ve indicated they have control of most, though not all . Then you have the Leviathan itself, operating under the same illusions as the masters of culture, stretching its Mr. Fantastic limbs into every aspect of society. Together they make it so that the NPR mindset is not all of society, but quite a large portion of it.
I have my own Newspeak-English dictionary:
- objective :
- reliably promoting the interests of Big Journalism. (usage: always applied to journalists who are members in good standing; never applied to anyone but a journalist)
- liberal :
- see "objective," except that the usage is reversed: (usage: never applied to any working journalist)
- progressive :
- see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").
- moderate:
- see "liberal." (usage: same as for "liberal").
- centrist :
- see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").
- conservative :
- rejecting the idea that journalism is a higher calling than providing food, shelter, clothing, fuel, and security; adhering to the dictum of Theodore Roosevelt that: "It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena (usage: applies to people who - unlike those labeled liberal/progressive/moderate/centrist, cannot become "objective" by getting a job as a journalist, and probably cannot even get a job as a journalist.)(antonym:"objective")
- right-wing :
- see, "conservative."