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Originally Posted by Adder
I love the "career suicide" in the headline, as if truly stupid people haven't gotten rich spouting conservative bs on tv.
And the media isn't "liberal." It's insider. Just watch how they react to medicare for all and the green new deal with concerns about deficits and how we will pay for it.
I also do not get how people on the right have accepted that absolute trash and racism like Breitbart is "conservative." Especially after spending decades saying that sort of things wasn't.
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She's 47, been a journalist for 30 years, and has a pretty solid resume (save some scandal where she was alleged, dishonestly, with trying to shade a Benghazi story).
I totally think it's nuts to even suggest right wing hack sites are news organizations of any kind. There, she's way off the reservation.
But when she says, "Look, 85% of journalists are registered Democrats... That's just a fact," she makes a solid point. There's a bent in the profession. And that bent is responsible for a lot of the right wing behavior we see today. It's an action/reaction/action/reaction cycle that needs to be broken. And when she says, "Things are largely grey, and not black and white, and the public should be told that," (paraphrasing) she prescribes the cure.
A world in which for eight years, Fox never once said anything positive about Obama, and now for two years, almost all of cable and national news says nothing but negative things about Trump is - objectively - not a media which is reflecting reality.* It's a competition of advocates.
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* I'm not suggesting equivalence. Trump is an embarrassing mess. But the angle of almost every story on the guy in the Times or WaPo is to shred him, to make sure you know the author hates him, and you should too, and then report on whatever he did. It's childish. As childish as he is. He deserves it. And media deserves him. We deserve a better media, and a better President.
