The Media Wants Kerry to Win
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4 Comments:
First Rather, then ABC. OK, NBC. . your turn. Let's step up Tom. Take a deep breath and say someting hateful about the President.
After last night's debate I'm frankly sick of both of them. Who needs more than one debate. It was mostly a rehash of the same old, same old.
Hey, the Times actually published 2 negative letters about Che!
Yes, of course. "The media" is one monolithic entity, just as you say...get a clue! Do some more research before you continue to regurgitate talking points. Even Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, was willing to concede that the media tends to lean liberal on social and cultural issues and moderate to conservative on economic issues. This is just a reflection of the biases of the professional classes that make up the journalist profession. So, yes, "the media" is biased but it's hardly as simple as an all-encompassing liberal or conservative bias. For chrissakes, think! Ideology rots the mind.
Get a clue? Oh please. We have two clues in Rathergae the ABC's direction to bias the news in Kerry's favor.
Please, pray tell, direct us to the light of what research that we lost souls must accomlish before we can be enlightened.
Here are some clues you might want to get, Anonymous:
1) My reference to the media wanting Kerry to win was an allusion to a specific comment made by Evan Thomas of Newsweek on Inside Washington:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040712.asp#1
Check it out (video is included). Thomas's comment is fairly widely known in the blogosphere. You might want to do a little of your own research here.
2) Read more carefully, for Godsakes! You'll note that I did NOT say the media has a liberal bias (though I think it does). What I did say was "The media wants Kerry to win." As I already pointed out, this was a reference to Evan Thomas'assertion, but it also makes perfect sense, even according to your brilliant analysis. Since most of the members of the "professional class" of journalism are Democrats (as has been shown in several studies), the desire of the media for Kerry to win merely reflects the biases of its individual members.
3) Does what Bill Kristol said constitute the extent of your research on this issue?
4) Perhaps it hadn't occurred to you that the Bill Kristol statement you cite so approvingly treats the media as a monolith -- as a single entity that reflects the aggregate biases and interests of its individual members.
5) Your wailing and gnashing of teeth distracted me from the fact that you had nothing to say about the memo I linked to.
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