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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Who, me? who wrote (13772)	11/7/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 67261

WhoMe, that article dealt with the "study" that determined that 89% of people employed in the media are "liberals." Take another look at it. As I recall, the point that the author was trying to make is that it is not the copyboy who determines the newspaper's policy, as reflected in its editorial page, but the management, the Rupert Murdochs, et al. The author also discusses TV talking head shows, where right-wingers are more than fairly represented. As for newspapers, among newspapers with a right-wing editorial policy, there are The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times, for example. The editorial pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, on the other hand, are centrist ("flabby centrist", as the author of the article I posted put it). The only regular "liberal" columnist on the New York Times op ed page is Anthony Lewis, and he is more than balanced out by William Safire and others. (Incidentally, both the Post and the Times published editorials calling on Clinton to resign.) There are no "left-wing" major newspapers. There are a few "left liberal" journals, like "The Nation" and "Mother Jones", but they have relatively small circulations. I would not maintain that the author of the article I posted is right all down the line. But as I said at the outset, some points he makes do need making. jbe