Just as a reminder, the Appleton Public Library and the Valley Scene are sponsoring a FREE showing of "Good Night, and Good Luck" on Thursday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Library (225 N. Oneida St.).
After the movie, Brian Farmer and I will be discussing Murrow v. McCarthy. Also speaking will be Mike Bergan, a retired Mass Communication teacher at Appleton East who currently overseas a "Media Matters" program at the Library.
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All the folks who claim left wing bias in the media point to the survey of Washington Post reporters that showed that some 90% voted Dem or Green in 2000. That may be the only evidence that exists.
You mean it wasn't Tony Snow's liberal bias that got him the job as White House press secretary? :-)
As one with up close and personal experience with "the press" I will confirm the fact that while reporters may or may not be "liberal" (now that is an elastic label) very few (if any) of the papers are owned and/or controlled by anything but conservatives.
A reporter can be as wild-eyed as he wants to be but it is the management who controls the news. It is my opinion that very few Americans know what "liberal" is. It most assuredly is NOT any of the mainstream media that so often is sneered at by the right.
(some) Journalists seem to be the only people who haven't yet heard the idea that the observer influences the observed.
The reason I beleive people keep harping on the subjectivity issue is because people like The Uber-Smug and Annoying Dana Millbank (who I just heard spew nonsense just 48 hours ago) actually believes he is perfectly objective. Presumably by virtue of having passed throught the hallowed halls of higher education. Proabaly hung over 90% of the time. But now he's a God. He then proceeded to mock, sarcasm and snark his way through a gross misrepresentation about blogging to a room full of aspiring journalism students. It was a travesty. Which was exponenetially mulitplied each time he leaned on the podium and cast his smarmy eyes about the room at what he told himself was an admiring crowd. Unfortunately that was true. Oooh, One of our own who has made it to the Wash Post. Aaah. Disregard he is a complete jackass.
People like him (and any conservative or centrist or whatever journalists) who are so inredibly self-blind inspire those constant harangues. They are absurd and infuriating. You're probably getting some of what they TRULY do deserve, just by association.
As has been so poetically stated elsewhere by someone with a clearly life-threatening case of spring fever, Millbank is indeed a pinhead.
The event at the Appleton Public Library turned out to be a rousing success. What looked to be about 75-100 people (almost full capacity of a basement meeting room) showed up to watch "Good Night, and Good Luck" and stick around for a post-film discussion. I was amazed at how many people who came up to me to tell me they are regular readers of the "Media Rants" column.
Kudos to Terry Dawson and Michael Kenney from the Appleton Public Library, and Chuck Miller and Jim Moran from the Valley Scene for pulling this off. Brian Farmer, Mike Bergan, and I had a civil discussion and we received some excellent comments and questions from the audience.
ROTFL
Every time I read that it gets worse.
Pretty masterful.
I would love to see the results of a study (along with its methodology) showing conservative bias in the media. I've looked all over and found none. But I've found at least a couple of studies indicating liberal bias.
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