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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (234596)6/29/2007 12:08:22 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I love PBS and NPR because they are, generally, liberal- they are out their, on the frontiers, which is where artists and reporters usually are. If they were conservative, they'd be bankers. Conservatives complain about liberal dominance in these professions, but it would be like me whining about stock brokers and bankers being conservatives- different political types gravitate toward different jobs. Just the way it is.


That's really humorous. It's a stereotype straight out of the New Deal era. If it was ever true, it certainly hasn't been for the last forty years. But it makes liberals feel soooo good about themselves.

Though back in the day, reporters were genuinely hard-drinking, chain-smoking, street-wise, working class types, nothing like today's urban metrosexuals who consider themselves part of the elite class of powerbrokers they are covering. Those old-school reporters would have been just horrified to hear themselves compared to some Oscar Wilde-type effete creative aesthete.
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