There are an equal number of liberal and conservative media-based pundits, from what I can tell.
However, those who call the media liberal, including me, are not talking about pundits. They are referring to supposedly unbiased journalists who present the news in broadcast or written form: Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, Shaw, Smith, Russert, Koppel and other broadcast news anchors and assignment reporters; news reporters and editors for the New York Times and other so-called papers of record; features writers and editorial boards for Newsweek and other major news magazines; news producers at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, BBC, etc., morning information show hosts like Couric, Zahn and others. The vast majority -- clearly over 90% -- of these people, sworn to the journalistic standard of unbiased reporting, are liberal and it shows in their work.
In addition, I was thinking of how liberal executives at Big Media organizations manipulate opinion by stacking op-ed pages with liberal columnists. The New York Times editorial page has seven regular columnists. Six are avowed liberals and one is a "moderate" republican. The Boston Globe, like their parent, has just one token conservative on the op-ed page to go along with six proud liberals. The LA Times, WP and Tribune are all overweight with liberal columnists as well.
Pinch and Howell and crowd need to keep up with their Columbia academic counterparts at the Manhattan Club, you know. |
