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Date Posted: 12:38:05 02/14/04 Sat
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
Subject: Extra stuff I forgot to include.
In reply to: Your intrepid Reviewer - Mt. Healthy Mountaineer 's message, "Adilbrand Noblesword's Hall of Warrior Review of Books: "Arrogance" by Bernard Goldberg" on 20:40:37 02/13/04 Fri

Goldberg's last 60 pages or so are a 12-step program to fixing this problem of media bias among the media elite. Among them are recruiting reporters that come from a variety of different kind of colleges, not just Columbia School of Journalism or other elite east-coast schools. In one of his interviews, Tim Russert, the host of "Meet the Press", a Sunday morning interview show, comments that most of the young newspeople he knows come from East Coast money and really do not understand the Americans in "fly-over country" (that's everyone between California and New York - the part of America that is not worth driving through, just flying over.) One of these young-uns was ridiculing a college that an applicant had recently graduated from, saying that it was a working-class college, until Russert pointed out that that was his alma mater as well. Russert's point is that most of these kids are strangers to the lives of 90% of America.

Another great suggestion is that these media outlets move their offices from Manhattan to someplace in middle America. He has 5 choices - one of which is Indianapolis. His point is that these reporters need to meet some different people. New York City is too provincial. A difference of opinion is in order. Goldberg writes: "And ten minutes after the elites hit town, they'll never again say, 'I didn't run into anyone all day who disagrees with me.' How can this be bad?"

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A related "admission" by ABC's poitical director, Mark Halperin -- Mt. Healthy Mountaineer, 20:42:13 03/02/04 Tue