The News Media

The News Media
By Michael Barone

Let's say you were part of a group designing the news media from scratch. Someone says that it would be a good idea to have competing news media -- daily newspapers and weekly magazines, radio and television news programs. Sounds like a good start.

Someone else says that it would be a good idea to staff these news media with people who are literate and well-educated. Check. Then someone says let's have 90 percent of the people who work for these organizations be from one of the nation's two competitive political parties and 10 percent from the other.

Uh, you might find yourself saying, especially if you weren't sure that your party would get the 90 percent, maybe that's not such a good idea. But that's the news media we have today.

Surveys galore have shown that somewhere around 90 percent of the writers, editors and other personnel in the news media are Democrats and only about 10 percent are Republicans. We depend on the news media for information about government and politics, foreign affairs and war, public policy and demographic trends -- for a picture of the world around us. But the news comes from people 90 percent of whom are on one side of the political divide. Doesn't sound like an ideal situation.

Of course, a lot of people in the news business say it doesn't make any difference. I remember a conversation I had with a broadcast news executive many years ago.

"Doesn't the fact that 90 percent of your people are Democrats affect your work product?" I asked.

"Oh, no, no," he said. "Our people are professional. They have standards of objectivity and professionalism, so that their own views don't affect the news."

"So what you're saying," I said, "is that your work product would be identical if 90 percent of your people were Republicans."

He quickly replied, "No, then it would be biased."

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I've debated many a Liberal and I've noticed they 'all' have the same mind set.

1. You present 'facts' and they say, "Yes but that 'doesn't feel right'.
2. You argue for the Constitution to be enforced only as its written and they say, "Oh no the Constitution is a 'living document' and must be adjusted to what 'feels right'."
3. You want to make America secure within her borders and argue for stringent border controls and they say, "Well yes but I feel it 'must not be used across the board'."

You'll notice that the Lib's are all about 'feelings' or maybe they'll call it 'gut feelings'. Don't use 'facts' with Lib's it makes them 'confused and angry'.

I'm a Conservative to the bone. Get government out of our homes, schools, medical care, and so on. I'm also a 'realist' as I rule I don't see 'shades of gray', it is all 'black and white' for me and I've always been that way. There are 'no difficult questions' if you have the 'will and the guts' to do what the 'facts' call for.

The news media in this nation has been 'Left Leaning' since the 1930's. Murrow, Cronkite and a host of others were/are Socialists and the learned their craft in colleges where the Socialist agenda was/is taught. Nothing has changed in 70 or so years MSM is still far to the Left and that won't change unless what it force fed people in schools of journalism changes.