September 01, 2004


How about some crackers...

With that whine, Benjamin?

A $500,000 ad buy made by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth brings searing media scrutiny and "proof" of illegal coordination based on a lawyer (me) representing both the Bush-Cheney campaign and the Swift Boat Veterans; on an accountant working for Tom DeLay's political action committee; and on a $200,000 contributor to the group who is not a major donor to Bush-Cheney 2004 but who does know Karl Rove.
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Perhaps the reason is that, politically and culturally, reporters are far from representative of the voters or politicians they claim to cover objectively and fairly, as shown in a study by the Pew Research Center. That study concluded that "journalists at national and local news organizations are notably different from the general public in their ideology and attitudes toward political and social issues. . . . [N]ews people, especially national journalists, are more liberal, and far less conservative, than the general public. . . . About a third of national journalists (34 percent) . . . describe themselves as liberals; that compares with 19 percent of the public. . . . Moreover, there is a relatively small number of conservatives at national and local news organizations. Just 7 percent of national news people . . . describe themselves as conservatives, compared with a third of all Americans."
Notably, Benjamin never mentions how Fox plays into those statistics, or what percentage of the "stories" bitch-slapping the 1600 Crew were on Faux News (my guess: None). For an ex-reporter, he sure is pretty bad at getting the story straight, but these days that's what "journalism" is all about ... spin not objectivity. I could be wrong I guess...but I don't think so. Just sayin'.

posted by Jo Fish on 09.01.04 at 10:21 PM





Comments:

"Here come the judge, here come the judge ..."

This phrase must be ringing in Ben's ears.

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 09.02.04 at 06:44 AM [permalink]



What year was that study issued 1964??

And just because I say I am a liberal it doesn't make it so. Reporters have lied before.

posted by: SGeorge on 09.02.04 at 07:41 AM [permalink]



Hope all of the demvet readers enjoy this holiday started by Labor-friendly Liberals!

If you are against Liberals, don't take the day off for this week.

posted by: Mr.Murder on 09.06.04 at 03:10 AM [permalink]






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