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To: epicure who wrote (234605)	6/29/2007 12:55:39 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm curious, what is it you disagree with? You don't think artists and reporters are liberal (in general)? You don't think they always have been,compared to their society- any society? You don't think bankers tend to be conservative? I think you are confusing "non-conformist" with "liberal". Not the same at all. You think artists, being non-conformists, must be liberal. I think they don't have to be liberal; they don't even have to be non-conformist. That's a hangover of the whole epater les bourgeois 19th century romantic mentality about artists. For most of history, artists have been artisans, plying their craft to make a living, with no more non-conformity implied by being a painter than being a cabinet-maker. I also disagree that bankers tend to be conservatives. Most of those I know aren't particularly conservative, and those who got into the field because they were looking for a secure job are sorry. Financial services has been subject to huge upheavels in the last 20 years, banking included, and today's bankers need to be very high-tech savvy and innovative. I think you're working on obsolete stereotypes. I used to work in financial services. How many bankers do you know? What IS liberal is today's media/jouralistic establishment, aka the MSM. That's a kind of guild arrangement, brought on by group-think. There are PLENTY of conservative reporters and commentators, they are just not very welcome in the MSM. They find their homes elsewhere. Note: I am listening to the BBC on NPR reporting today's SCOTUS decision on school assignment in Seattle. There are several ways to headline this decision. 1. Neutral: 5-4: Justices Limit Use of Race in School Admissions (from RealClearPolitics.com) 2. Pro: Diversity without Decrees: The Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based School Assignment Plans (NRO online) 3. Anti: Politicians Across the USA Denounce Supreme Court's Decision to Overturn Programs Designed to Promote Racial Integration in Schools (BBC World News. But I didn't have to say that, did I?) The BBC, a very large and eminent member of MSM, as shown by its global reach, has moved so far away from neutrally reporting the news that it doesn't remember what objectivity looks like. But this is no more a necessity of BBC reporting, than it was a necessity for it to be an respectful organ of the British Establishment, as it was 60 years ago.