The left’s political hypocrisy
The main stream media in this country is often accused of promoting left of center views. MSNBC has compiled a list of political donations from media members that pretty much confirms popular opinion.
MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.
And that is despite pretty pervasive (and spreading) rules within media companies banning political contributions. That ban doesn’t make the members of the media any less leftist, but it will shield their overt political biases from the public. Their political views will still be easily identifiable through their reporting, just as it is now in many cases. Hey, at least some in the media admit to being biased.
Against that backdrop of a heavily skewed traditional media, two “progressive” (fancy word for liberal) groups, the Center for American Progress and Free Press, released a report whining about the conservative slant of much of talk radio. Being good little socialists they don’t think that it is fair that radio stations aren’t owned by minorities and women in the same proportion as the general population. They apparently favor government distribution of such things on the basis of arbitrary parameters that the individuals were born with, rather than what they work their entire lives to prove.
What do you think the odds are that the same liberal groups put out a report calling for increased ownership of traditional media outlets by people with a more conservative philosophy to adjust that off balance? I’m guessing pretty slim.
“The pattern of donations, with nearly nine out of 10 giving to Democratic candidates and causes, appears to confirm a leftward tilt in newsrooms…”
Here’s an interesting one:
(D) The New York Times, Randy Cohen, ethics columnist.
No conflict of interest there.
/sarc
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