Matthew Yglesias » Silly Benen

Dec 16th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Silly Benen

Steven Benen asks: “If six media figures joining Democratic campaigns is proof that reporters are liberal, are seven loyal Bushies joining news outlets proof that major media outlets are conservative?”

Of course not! The loyal Bushies joining major media outlets is proof that the media is liberal — so liberal, in fact, that even the hard-core liberals who control the media feel so guilty about it that they need to hire hack propagandists from the Bush administration to try to counteract their own liberal liberalishness. Similarly, CNN hiring Steve Hayes also proves that the media is liberal.

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Thomas Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Yep, straight-news folks move seamlessly to liberal politics while conservative politicos move seamlessly to positions as conservative political analysts: practically the same thing!
El Cid Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Matthew Dowd.
qaz Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Thomas, I realize this is a challenge for you, but please try not to be so incredibly stupid.
24AheadDotCom Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
As Thomas points out, most of those who made the jump from “journalism” to the BHO campaign were considered real journalists and impartial observers. Then – even though no one could have guessed it – they revealed themselves to be Dem Party hacks. Meanwhile, Benen’s list of conservatives is composed of those who were not and are not considered to be “real journalists”, just pundits. And, in some cases they’re simply tokens.

Note: I’d leave this comment over at the WaMonthly, except they have a habit of deleting non-abusive, on-topic comments that show how they’re wrong. Because of that, nothing they write can be trusted.
El Cid Says:
December 17th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Perhaps our resident conservatives could also explain why it is that conservatives wish nothing to do with “real journalists.”

After all, the hallmark of the modern conservative movement is its dedication to monolithic, unquestioned lying in support of Party mythology, so anyone practicing anything which could possibly be labeled “real journalism” is by definition an enemy of the Party.
Th Says:
December 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I have to side with the trolls on this one, you really are comparing apples and oranges.
El Cid Says:
December 17th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Tim Russert’s MTP was so friendly to the Bush Jr. administration rhetoric that Dick Cheney wanted other conduits through which to propagandize, ’cause Russert was just too friendly and it wouldn’t look convincing.
Njorl Says:
December 17th, 2008 at 9:22 am
It isn’t too surprising that real reporters tend to be liberal. Freedom of the press is among the most manifestly liberal ideals that there is. The problem with concluding from this that the media is liberal arises from the fact that very little of the media is comprised of real reporters.
qjk Says:
December 17th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Hey Matt, the problem is not that the media is not liberal. Of course it is, or at least most journalists are. Being informed is a liberal occupation, after all. The problem is that the liberals in the media have no spine, because they’re embarrassed about being liberals, or afraid of revealing themselves as non-neutral actors–objectivity, too, is a (stupid) liberal ideal.

The best thing that could happen to American journalism is if Rupert Murdoch bought the NYT and made it more stridently liberal, beginning with sending Kristol back to Fox News.
Dave Weigel Says:
December 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Yeah, I think Benen goes after the wrong targets. Tony Snow was a Fox News anchor, host of their Sunday show (before Chris Wallace), who then went to the White House.

And Benen leaves out Andrew Malcolm, the LA Times “top of the ticket” reporter/blogger who was Laura Bush’s press secretary from 1999-2000. Malcolm has a way of writing snarky/critical things about Democrats and “comeback just around the corner” things about Republicans which the likes of Instapundit and Drudge gleefully link to as “LA TIMES: Republicans on comeback trail” or “LA TIMES: Time to fire Pelosi?”
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