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Redstate
Why
the Media Will Never Treat Conservatives Fairly
By
Erick Erickson
September
13th, 2013
I
have written a number of pieces in the past year about conservatives
having a “poor little ole me” attitude when it comes to the
media. Conservatives are convinced the media is out to get them. They
are convinced the media is covering up stories and covering for the
Obama Administration.
Often,
conservatives are flat out wrong. They are so convinced the media is
out to get them they do not even make their case to the media. They
give up without starting.
Each
time I write about these things, members of the media retweet the
posts glowingly and approvingly. And while I stand by each of those
posts I’ve written, the media itself needs to be held accountable
because, if members of the media were truly honest, must admit it is
biased against conservatives.
As
objective as the media claims to be, the so called Gang of 500 —
the reporters and chattering class who develop the conventional
wisdom in politics — is mostly of the left or married to the left.
There is a revolving door between the media and leftwing politics
that rarely exists on the right. It shapes the world view of the
members of the media and necessitates conservatives working even
harder to get their opinions, views, and stories heard.
I
have encountered this bias throughout the media in my professional
life and seen it up close over the years.
Today
comes word that Richard Stengel, Time’s managing editor, is leaving
the magazine for the State Department. He is but one in a long line
of liberals who have, for years, feigned objectivity when his world
view is decidedly of the left.
Consider
the others.[1] [Update: Over at the Daily Beast, Ben Jacobs notes 15
journalists have moved into the Obama Adminstration]
Perhaps
most famous is Jay Carney. He is currently the White House Press
Secretary. Before that he was in the Vice President’s office. Prior
to that, he was Washington bureau chief at Time magazine working with
Richard Stengel. Stengel, in 2008, defended Carney’s decision to go
into the Obama Administration. Of course he would.
When
Jay Carney left Vice President Biden’s office, the Vice President
went to the Washington Post and hired Shailagh Murray as Carney’s
replacement. She is married to Neil King of the Wall Street Journal.
King, if you want a window into his world view, thought it
controversial that an evangelical church would participate in the
50th anniversary celebration of Martin Luther King’s speech in
Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Southern Baptist preacher
and this group opposes gay marriage. King’s daughter once said her
father didn’t take a bullet for gay marriage. This is all shocking
enough to warrant a story.
Then,
of course, there is Linda Douglass, who left ABC News to work for the
White House promoting Obamacare and is now at the Atlantic. She,
while at the White House, suggested people report their neighbors for
lying about Barack Obama and Obamacare.
Jill
Zuckman left the Chicago Tribune to be the Secretary of
Transportation’s spokesman. She follows in the footsteps of noted
reporter David Axelrod who left the Chicago Tribune to help Barack
Obama and is now on MSNBC as a pundit.
Shailagh
Murray is not the only Washington Post reporter to head into the
Obama Administration. Douglas Frantz headed to the State Department
and Stephen Barr headed to the Labor Department…
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the rest of the article at Redstate
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