EDWARD W. GILLESPIE
Over the past few months, a steady stream of journalists from mainstream-media outlets — at least eight, led by Time Washington-bureau chief Jay Carney — have abandoned journalism for positions in the Obama administration or with congressional Democrats. Fortunately for them, the difficult transition from objective reporting to ardent advocacy of a party’s agenda was made easier by the head start they got in last year’s campaign. Though there have long been concerns about liberal bias in the media, 2008 was the year the referees took off their striped shirts and donned a team’s jersey.
Some say it’s a shift forced by the rapidly changing business model of journalism; others say longstanding liberal bias has simply become more apparent in a media culture that demands quick and constant content. But there are very few who deny that a marked change occurred. In a December dispute with the New York Times over an incredibly biased story on the root causes of the housing crisis (Guess what? It was all Bush’s fault!), I put it this way: “I don’t know if the New York Times’s shoddy reporting is a result of its junk-bond status, or if the New York Times’s junk-bond status is a result of its shoddy reporting.”
As a conservative who has worked with reporters for 25 years and generally enjoyed friendly relations with them, it’s a dispiriting change — one to which Republicans must adapt, and soon. Despite witnessing the media’s evolution firsthand, I was slow coming to this conclusion.
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As long as corporations and their lobbyists are allowed to donate to, or hire politicians, you will not be able to control the bias Liberal media.
Our elected officials take millions of dollars in campaign donations from corporations, PACs and lobbyists. In turn, the politicians earmark funding for their sponsors.
Let’s take Hellman & Friedman for example. They bought a very large Defense contract company. They also bought out shares of Lehman Bro. They were also bidding on one of the largest media corporations, Gannett.
Now you end up with a corporation who has a financial stake in Defense contracts, the Federal Reserve and the media. What a combination for a politicians to say “cha ching!”
Georgia politicians received funding from PMA Group, who also has ties with John Murtha, who has ties with the Defense Contract Management Agency.
The Defense contractor that Hellman & Friedman bought, Intergraph, and their lobbyists are top donors to the same politicians who can earmark funding for them.
When these corporations own the media, do you honestly think they’re going to allow their reporters/journalists to report anything BUT biased news?
Stop the politicians from being able to earmark funding to the corporations who own the media, and you’ll be able to stop the bias reporting.
My question is this…why does the FCC allow only Liberal news owned by these corporations? Who is controlling the FCC?