Date Posted:20:42:13 03/02/04 Tue Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer Subject: A related "admission" by ABC's poitical director, Mark Halperin In reply to:
Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
's message, "Extra stuff I forgot to include." on 12:38:05 02/14/04 Sat
Here is more along the same line, except that this came from one of the networks that Goldberg was writing about. ABC News political director, Mark Halperin, is admitting to all of the things that Goldberg says are the root of the bias problem in the media. Normally, I'd drop it but this tied in so well that I decided to add it to my review as another addendum.
Here are the relevant quotes, lifted from ABC News' site:
"Like every other institution, the Washington and political press corps operate with a good number of biases and predilections.
They include, but are not limited to, a near-universal shared sense that liberal political positions on social issues like gun control, homosexuality, abortion, and religion are the default, while more conservative positions are "conservative positions."
They include a belief that government is a mechanism to solve the nation's problems; that more taxes on corporations and the wealthy are good ways to cut the deficit and raise money for social spending and don't have a negative affect on economic growth...
The press, by and large, does not accept President Bush's justifications for the Iraq war -- in any of its WMD, imminent threat, or evil-doer formulations. It does not understand how educated, sensible people could possibly be wary of multilateral institutions or friendly, sophisticated European allies.
It does not accept the proposition that the Bush tax cuts helped the economy by stimulating summer spending.
The worldview of the dominant media can be seen in every frame of video and every print word choice that is currently being produced about the presidential race."
Now, read that last paragraph again. Even if you never took a high school journalism class that should scare the bejeebers out of you - the mainstream media are supposed to strive to be or at least appear to be non-partisan. Oh well, it seems that ABC, at least, has embraced the very things that Goldberg is warning about.
