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Jonah Goldberg: An open conspiracy to slant the news

By Alliance Alert

Jonah Goldberg writing at National Review Online: "Many conservatives think JournoList is the smoking gun that proves not just liberal media bias (already well-established) but something far more elusive as well: the Sasquatch known as the Liberal Media Conspiracy. I?m not so sure. In the 1930s, the New York Times deliberately whitewashed Stalin?s murders. In 1964, CBS reported that Barry Goldwater was tied up with German Nazis. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times polled 2,700 journalists at 621 newspapers and found that journalists identified themselves as liberal by a factor of 3 to 1. Their actual views on issues were far more liberal than even that would suggest. ... In other words, JournoList is a symptom, not the disease. And the disease is not a secret conspiracy but something more like the 'open conspiracy' H. G. Wells fantasized about, where the smartest, best people at every institution make their progressive vision for the world their top priority."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).