Posted by
Tzimisce on Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:09:11 PM
Headline today: Journalists contribute overwhelmingly to Liberal Democrats. As if I needed a study to tell me this. Let's give a big round of applause for all the time, money and energy that was wasted in a study giving results that everyone (outside of elitist lefties) already know.
Aw but the study only showed that mostly non-political reporters contributed to Dems. Yeah you're right - I'd never guess in a million years that Larry King, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Katie Couric, Keith Olberman, Chris Mathews and others support liberal causes - how stupid do you really think I am?
Just in the past couple of months the New York Times relegated a plot to blow up Kennedy International Airport to page thirty. A few years ago the NYT skipped a story about the new elections in Iraq. And this is just a couple of stories I remember off the cuff from one major paper. I'm sure that a little digging would reveal similar actions across a wide spectrum of news outlets.
The truth is major journalists don't have to necessarily contribute money. They can parse stories, sit on important stories or blow other stories completely out of proportion and decide what the lead story is going to be to effect elections. Example: most stories about Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama are glowing. About a month ago Barrack while speaking in to a group mistated the number of deaths in a devastating tornado. It was quickly forgotten. Contrast that with a few years back when Bush couldn't remember the names of a couple of world leaders - the press didn't forget that. The press has the power to make anyone look good or bad depending on how they choose to do it. Granted sometimes it backfires, but it usually doesn't. I ask again: What did Scooter Libby do? Won't anyone in the press core go in to that? No? Why not? (Cause he's a member of the evil Bush administration.)
It just reveals more stupidity in left wing philosophy. Can't trust "big oil" to work on energy policy because they'd only work to further their own interest. But we can trust a bunch of left wing journalists to bring us "unbiased, non partisan" news. They're not fooling anyone, they're just insulting us all - which is part of the problem. How long can you talk down to your clientele before they get mad and walk out on you? Sagging sales and low ratings would indicate we've reached that point. Naturally journalists blame their audience (which they believe are all stupid) instead of working on their product. ("We can't help the news, we just report it.") Cool, don't take my advice. I'd love to see you all disappear.
There is an interesting sidebar to all of this: the "Think Progress" web site has done a study that shows that talk radio is overwhelmingly conservative. And since they're a liberal group, we can trust them and their study. Naturally their suggested fix is usurp free speech and subvert the Constitution and force a bunch of liberal programming to "balance" the radio.
With this new report out will they demand Conservative equal time in the television news media? (Answer: no.) With all the studies that show college professors being overly liberal will this Think Progress group demand more conservative opinion at Universities? After all, I can turn off the radio but most of my reading at college was mandatory. (Again Answer: no.) With all the studies about Hollywood and how left wing they are and all the actors and actresses supporting big lefty causes, will Think Progress demand more conservative voices there? (Answer: no.)
Just like the other unbiased, non partisans that make up the left wing - they're agenda driven and tell us otherwise.