kuv....good to see ya, old chum.
What you speak to (and it's covered in some of what you've linked) is the factor that the Pew study centers on in its overview, and which our author doesn't mention...that news people are most concerned that the direction and quality of modern news has been "seriously hurt" by bottom-line considerations.
Briefly, let's take the following...
Quote: Some 82 percent of the journalists were able to list a news organization that was "especially conservative" (most named Fox News), but an amazing 62 percent could not name any news organization that struck them as "especially liberal." Good grief. Even 60 percent of the Homer Simpson family could probably figure out that the New York Times or National Public Radio qualify as liberal.
Note the shift to "liberal" from "
especially liberal". The entire purpose and meaning of the question responded to is made null. And that's done to equate the NY Times and Fox, which, of course, was not what the survey demonstrated. That's a typical move from townhall writers, and it's but another ironic instance of screed pretending to be journalism.
Or take this piece...
Quote:Why does the news business keep hiring more and more people who disagree sharply with the customers, many of whom are already stampeding out the door for a variety of reasons?
There's a neat trick here. The customers don't want these 'left-leaning' sources they disagree with, so are stampeding away. It's a market thing...preferences are demonstrated by audience. That's the reason Fox or Rush are OK...they're successful, therefore people obviously want them.
But it is precisely sources such as the NY Times or Salon or the New Yorker or Atlantic or the Boston Globe or the New York Review of Books or CBC which DO succeed in the marketplace. The paper or magazine or newshow isn't supported by donations from Soros or the government, but by purchasers. Townhall is precisely an example of the opposite...it came into being, and it survives
only because of partisan donation. So where is the stampede actually pointing?
