Thursday, September 10, 2009

The MSM under the microscope

As my brother is fond of saying take an average group of people and they'll likely tend to be non-ideological, you can have someone who is pro-life but for gay marriage at the same time, you can have a conservative who bashes Big Business (that'd be me) but the whole point is there are so many opinions out there and that's good. It's pretty much an established fact that the vast majority of the msm are liberal in their political orientation, ok sure you have your occasional Brit Humes, ok you have Brit Hume but on balance they always take the non-conservative position on practically any given issue. They won't call themselves liberal of course, we're objective you know (a Marvin Kalb piece of gospel they fall back on when challenged) but they certainly do harbor certain opinions and this seeps out every now and then in their coverage of the Whatever and the seepage is known as bias. I like to think of it as cat spray, marking their territory or a little septic action in the backyard but ok, so now here's the question before the Board today (or judging by my sitemeter of late is that the Bored?) -- do these budding journalists, aspiring reporters enter college, journalism school, the institutions of Higher Learning without much in the way of a strong political package to begin with either way and then something happens within the school itself that churns out a bunch of cookie-cutter liberals OR are they liberals to begin with who are merely honing their journalistic skills to better practice their non-bias bias? Again on ANY GIVEN ISSUE, Ted Kennedy - be respectful, talk radio - Bad, health-care reform - obvious, Van Jones - Glenn Beck racist......I MEAN WTF IS GOING ON HERE???

4 comments:

  1. "I MEAN WTF IS GOING ON HERE?"


    You should know the answer to that one by now. The lefties are a bunch of hypocrites and they can do nothing wrong!.

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  2. It's like the age old question, which came first the chicken or the egg, but I think what started out as journalists just trying to get a good scoop, maybe it was Watergate that made them decide that Republicans were evil, how knows? But now I think it is liberals who go into journalism with the intent to sway people to their way of thinking.

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  3. " do these budding journalists, aspiring reporters enter college, journalism school, the institutions of Higher Learning without much in the way of a strong political package to begin with either way..?"
    ..we need ask Sarah Palin, who received her Journalism degree at U of Idaho. :)

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  4. I'm leaning towards the theory that something happens in the journalism school itself, something Stephen Kingish even, that churns out these ideological clones.

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