Posted on 04/25/2002 9:25:33 AM PDT by MAKnight
If the press is composed of such bright, talented people...
There's the problem right there. The best of them are useful idiots. The rest of them aren't even very useful.
The exception, of course, is Senator John McCain of Arizona. McCain, as everyone knows...
is no republican, but a dribbling socialist, like the press corps.
Indoctrination and propaganda are twin pillars of leftist ideology's means of change for a long time. This means that education and journalims are much more important to leftists than conservatives.
I'd put it a little differently. The Dems agenda (mostly negative agitprop) makes for good copy. The Republican agenda is pretty much laissez-faire. The front page of the newspaper is not filled with stories of how "nothing much happened downtown today". They have to go out of their way to find something, even if it's a pothole, out of which to make a big deal.
Wonder where that "old saw" came from. I always thought the job of a reporter is to report facts.
This statement gives the press far too much credit.
Reporting, fact checking, analysis, writing do indeed require considerable intelligence and skill. Unfortunately, many liberal reporters and media outlets don't bother with tedious chores like "fact-checking". Nor do they undertake the hard work that objective analysis requires; not when they can re-write the fax from the DNC.
The press may well think of themselves as "bright and talented". But, all too often, they seem simply unwilling (or unable) to do the hard work that their craft should demand. And, all too often, their stories betray, not just a liberal bias, but a total ignorance of the subject at hand.
The Mainstream Media:
IGNORANCE ON PARADE
Uh ... I have never met an Englishman who wasn't completely indifferent to the Irish. Not wanting to sit for hours listening to monologues about imperial "oppression" is not the same thing as hostility to their identity.
If the reporters and editors are liberals, they will write liberal stories. Since most reporters and editors are liberals, the media is liberal.
Objectivity is a myth.
If all of us on the board were reporters writing about Clinton, could we be "objective" and write about his achievements rather than his crimes?
Some maybe, but I sure couldn't.
Unless conservatives go into journalism rather than into jobs actually produce something of value, things will never change.
They envision a society where they comprise the top of pyramid. Capitalist society does not always reward them. Their mentality resembles that of power-hungry priests, the sanctimony and the power lust lumped together.
Years ago, writers became reporters by joining a paper at the lowest rungs, writing obits, attending city council meetings, and really learning the craft (I did this in radio). Post-Watergate, after Woodward and Bernstein became big media stars, newspapers started hiring people who had "journalism" degrees. The students who got journalism degrees overwhelmingly tended to be those who had a liberal agenda, wanted to promote it, wanted to "change the world" etc. (Not coincidentally, they were also students with no aptitude for harder subjects, such as science, business or math). They went to places like Columbia University, where they were surrounded by other people who all think alike, instructed by tenured liberal professors who never had to worry about being fired, no matter what kind of blather they spouted. Then they all went to work in the media, again surrounded by a tight cocoon of people who all think the exact same way. This is why they can't even conceive of the idea that they are biased: why, they're just saying what EVERYBODY THEY KNOW thinks!
Let me tell you, when I go to a meeting of our local press club, I really have to watch my tongue, or I'll probably tell someone how full of manure he is, or what a lying rapist Clinton was, or how it was Gore who tried to steal the election, not Bush, and end up getting forcibly evicted.
Sowell distinguishes these as believers in the Unconstrained vision of mankind. In a Conflict of Visions he lays out the tendancies of this disposition to always come down to a certain side in every context.
I got this far into the article.Is this supposed to be a real article?Is this author HIGH?What is quoted in bold above, is how Rowland Evans used to do the news.This "how things are now" type of sentence is just laughable.
Good article.
Bush during his VP debates and Wilson on prop 187, Buchanan's convention speech in '92, and more recently with Lazio during his debate with Clinton, the press constantly employs the Big Lie to suit their Marxist ideology.
Thank goodness their time will soon be over.
Your description basically means that American jouranlism has become more like European journalism, whose real goal is to educate and elighten masses, not reporting facts.
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