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Journalist finds real culprit of MSM bias

Arguably the best piece I’ve ever read that deals with the obvious leftist media bias in this country.  Here’s an excerpt from journalist (though he’d rather be called “writer”, out of shame for his profession) Michael Malone on who is to blame for the bias:

… The editors.  The men and women you don’t see; the people who not only decide what goes in the paper, but what doesn’t; the managers who give the reporters their assignments and lay-out the editorial pages.  They are the real culprits.

Why?  I think I know, because had my life taken a different path, I could have been one:  Picture yourself in your 50s in a job where you’ve spent 30 years working your way to the top, to the cockpit of power . . . only to discover that you’re presiding over a dying industry.  The Internet and alternative media are stealing your readers, your advertisers and your top young talent.  Many of your peers shrewdly took golden parachutes and disappeared.  Your job doesn’t have anywhere near the power and influence it did when your started your climb.  The Newspaper Guild is too weak to protect you any more, and there is a very good chance you’ll lose your job before you cross that finish line, ten years hence, of retirement and a pension.

In other words, you are facing career catastrophe -and desperate times call for desperate measures.  Even if you have to risk everything on a single Hail Mary play.  Even if you have to compromise the principles that got you here.  After all, newspapers and network news are doomed anyway – all that counts is keeping them on life support until you can retire.

And then the opportunity presents itself:  an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career.  With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived Fairness Doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe, be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there.

And besides, you tell yourself, it’s all for the good of the country . . .

Nope Yep…no glaring liberal media bias!

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October 25, 2008 - Posted by | media bias, Obama

8 Comments »

  1. OK, that might explain the bias in favor of the left in this election… but what explains the bias in 2004? Or 2000? Or all the free passes that Bill Clinton got from the press? Honestly, I don’t think we have to look up the chain of command beyond the reporters to find liberal bias.

    Comment by PabloD | October 25, 2008

  2. I have to agree with (1). Complaints of liberal bias in newspapers predate the decline in the newspaper industry. I think it’s simply because for decades journalists have been college-educated, and college educated people tend to be left of center.

    On a different subject, Liberal Crusher: it may be viscerally satisfying to pass the time bashing liberals, but outside of exciting your own passions, what good are you doing? Perhaps you should spend some time thinking about national policy prescriptions that will advance your agenda. Of course, that’s not nearly as much fun, is it?

    Lastly, do you disagree in any significant way with any tenets of the modern conservative movement? If not, then can you truly say that your opinions are your own?

    Comment by SimonPure | October 26, 2008

  3. It’s very well stated and yes the editors and managers have a lot of say in what goes into the papers, but the reporters themselves are fawning just the same. They have almost always leaned left, and only more so in recent years.

    Will the “fairness doctrine” be revived… with and Obama win and the house and senate going blue.. Methinks the answer is yes.

    Comment by Jenn | October 26, 2008

  4. The media is massively in the tank for Obama and against McCain and Palin based primarily on “race”. The MSM also sees Palin as not only a serve threat now but possibly in 2012.

    Comment by Tyrone | October 26, 2008

  5. Brownshirts and Jackboots. Sorry to post a shameless link to my site, but it is a comprehensive look at the Obama campagin which is too long to post here.

    Comment by TheBad | October 27, 2008

  6. I think it’s simply because for decades journalists have been college-educated, and college educated people tend to be left of center.

    I am college educated, as are most of my friends, and we’re not left of center. We actually love our country.

    On a different subject, Liberal Crusher

    At this point, I’m mostly inclined to ignore you, especially since you haven’t read the About Me page. I have no desire to crush liberals. Liberals are people, albeit depraved and misguided people. Liberalism, on the other hand, is a horrific ideology that I would love nothing more to see neutralized.

    but outside of exciting your own passions, what good are you doing?

    My apologies if I have done anything to give you the impression that I report to you or owe you any kind of account of my life. I owe God Almighty an account of my life, and Him alone.

    Comment by crushliberalism | October 27, 2008

  7. “Lastly, do you disagree in any significant way with any tenets of the modern conservative movement? If not, then can you truly say that your opinions are your own?”

    Oh, I always love this argument. It usually comes out in theological disucssions if you support anything approaching orthodoxy. You get told “You’re just parroting what your priest / rabbi / pastor says.” Never for a moment does it occur to some people that you support a religious or political creed because (a) you’ve thoughtfully considered it, and (b) you’ve decided that the alternative answers fall short.

    How wonderful it must be to have your ideas and opinions spring forth, sui generis, without the slightest taint of anybody else’s input.

    Comment by PabloD | October 27, 2008

  8. I was similarly amused, Pablo.

    Comment by crushliberalism | October 28, 2008


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