My daily jaunt over to the excellent Media Research Center’s Cyberalert page is always fruitful. Today we hear from a just-retired liberal reporter formerly of the very liberal Washington Post who admits on air (while promoting his new anti-conservative book) that the mainstream media is hugely, enormously, left-wing biased. AND that this bias comes out in their stories—what they choose to report and not report and how they report it or ignore it.
And this man was the “senior political reporter” at the Washington Post! And now he’s teaching journalism at a university. Shocka.
Click here to listen to the radio show interviewBut people: that’s in the comparatively less liberal U.S.! Here in Canada, the ratio is not nearly so “balanced” as a mere 25-to-1. Try 99-to-1. And here, the state owns and runs a big hunk of it (and I use the term “hunk” advisedly) and perpetuates this bias even more stridently than the liberal-but-at-least-it’s-privately-owned media.
Here’s the Media Research Center’s report:
(Liberal) Washington Post Vet: By 25-to-1, Journalists “Overwhelmingly to the Left”
Catching up with a surprising, yet refreshingly candid, admission from last week: Long-time Washington Post national political reporter Thomas Edsall, who recently accepted a buy-out from the newspaper, admitted the “mainstream media presents itself as unbiased, when in fact there are built into it many biases, and they are overwhelmingly to the left.” Asked by Los Angeles-based syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt, during the September 21 interview, to quantify the skew, the very liberal Edsall pegged it at “probably in the range of 15-25:1 Democrat.”
Hewitt wondered: “Can the mainstream media ever be fair as a result?” Edsall suggested it means the mainstream media are clueless about conservatives: “I think the problem is that there is a real difficulty on the part of the mainstream media being sympathetic, or empathetic, whatever the word would be, to the kind of thinking that goes into conservative approaches to issues. I think the religious right has been treated as sort of an alien world.” […]
For those of us on the right who already know this, this could be filed under “O” for “Obvious”, or for most of us in Canada, under “W” for “Wake up and smell the leftist bias BS in our media”.
Just yesterday, I was treated to this news from the good LifeSite.net, no, not the state-run CBC or the CTV:
New York Times Writer of 138 Stories on Abortion Admits Pro-Abortion Bias
Warns of assault on women’s reproductive freedom by religious fundamentalism
by Hilary White
NEW YORK, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Times reputation for objectivity took another blow today as one of that paper’s reporters has ripped into those who would “threaten abortion rights.”
Linda Greenhouse, speaking at a Harvard University appearance this summer, complained of a “sustained assault on women’s reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism. To say that these last few years have been dispiriting is an understatement.”
Greenhouse, who received a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Supreme Court, told National Public Radio (NPR) she would not be backing away from the remarks, saying, “Let the chips fall where they may.”
MSNBC reports that Greenhouse has been reprimanded by the NYT for her participation in 1989 in a large abortion rally in Washington.
NPR’s interviewer quoted Daniel Okrent, who served as the Times’ first public editor, as saying he was surprised by her remarks.
“It’s been a basic tenet of journalism … that the reporter’s ideology (has) to be suppressed and submerged, so the reader has absolute confidence that what he or she is reading is not coloured by previous views,” he said.
The job of a public editor at a newspaper is to criticise the practices, standards and culture of the newspaper, to identify and examine critical errors and omissions, and to act as a liaison to the public.
It has long been well known, however, that the New York Times is heavily biased in favour of abortion and the full political and social program of radical feminism. The Times has been a major influence behind many of the legal changes that have transformed North American Society according to feminist ideas.
A search of the New York Times website reveals that Linda Greenhouse has covered the abortion issue in at least 138 articles since 1981 as part of her Supreme Court coverage. Many of her articles in the last 20 years have featured the fears of abortion activists that their movement has been “under threat” by various forces, particularly the “religious right.”
Okrent told NPR he had not received a single complaint of bias in Greenhouse’s …
But there are dozens of stories like this, which ironically never get published in the mainstream media or are at best found on page E-95. Many from the liberal mainstream media have come forward and said/admitted to similar things. And of course we know about the Dan Rathers of the world and really, there’s ample reason to suspect all the others in mainstream media. And again, that’s in the U.S.! Canada is far worse.
Bernard Goldberg, formerly of CBS News (the network that lives up to its acronym), wrote a book called Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (it’s on our Reading Right list. Over the years I’ve also documented several academic studies that prove this left-wing bias in the media, and of course the superb writer Ann Coulter and others have literally made a living exposing the overt left-wing bias and lies of the liberal mainstream media.
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