Editor: I'm Not Liberal, I Just Act Like One
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Exposing Liberal Media Bias
One of my favorite pastimes is listening to liberal journalists tell me they aren't liberal. I find it very similar to listening to an alcoholic explain how they are just social drinkers. In the end, the conversation can be closed simply by asking "who did you vote for in the last ten elections?" That goes for the journalist or the drunk, by the way. So it was with great glee that I read editor Cindi Ross Scoppe open with this denial in her article "Judith Miller and the myth of the 'liberal media establishment'"
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Yes, I know some of you still consider me to be a liberal. Trust me: You're in the minority. And youre wrong.
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Cindi, it isn't you. It's me. Really. I'm just incapable of trusting journalists. By the way, next time you write an article dispelling the "myth of the liberal media", you might want to leave out this part:
As a group, we tend to be arrogant and nomadic, which too
often results in our being quite detached from our
communities. And yes, as a group we do tend to be more
socially and politically liberal than our communities.
And yes, this does show up in our news coverage. As
nomadic outsiders, journalists build community among
themselves. This leads to the group-think that takes
over within any group of people with similar education,
similar social status and similar worldviews. This
creates huge blind spots that influence and limit our
thinking. The blind spot that causes the greatest
disconnect these days, of course, relates to religious
and social issues, which have become the new litmus test
of ideology in our country. Case in point: The concept of
a born-again Christian was foreign to the faith traditions
in which most journalists grew up (if they grew up in
any), and so official journalism is distrustful of anyone
who calls himself one.
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