The Story The Media Is Missing Because It Does Not Fit Their Narrative
This is a good article for two reasons. First, it explains liberal media bias, then it makes a point.
For years I read and watched liberal bias in the news but could not understand why or how it could exist in such obvious intensity and quantity. This explains well what I've learned.
Let’s admit there is media bias. We know there is despite the best efforts of some on the left to deny it.
I cannot tell you the number of reporters at major networks and newspapers who will, in private moments, admit there is a real bias.
In most cases it is not an intentional bias. It is a product of being largely highly educated, liberally inclined, white urbanites who live on the Upper West Side, have drivers whisk them off to their studio or out of Adams-Morgan into downtown DC where they hang out with other fashionable liberals who, unlike me, think Jimmy Choo is a shoe manufacturer and not, a I thought, a Chinese restaurant.
They talk about what’s in the New York Times Magazine and on its front page. They gossip about who isn’t sleeping with Maureen Dowd anymore. They go to wine country in France, tie the latest J. Crew sweater around their neck because Michelle does, and otherwise live in an insular world of group think.
They hang out with other liberals, think anyone else is wrong. Therefore they hire liberals and work with liberals - and there you go. There is no diversity of opinion.
There are examples. Years from now when the "global warming" is forgotten, a different issue will apply, unless the "Mainstream Media" stops presenting a one-sided (often wrong) view of the world.
The preconceived notions they develop in this insular world of their likeminded friends colors what gets reported and what doesn’t. The majority of Americans who realize global warming is a scam are pooh-poohed as ignorant because all the guys at Brown, Harvard, and Vassar say so.
The credible scientists who disagree with the group think are shunned as holocaust deniers. Republicans and conservatives are treated as the same creature.
What's the story the media is missing?
Conservative and liberal Republicans are united behind Scott Brown. You’d think a mainstream media that has generated millions of words on television, radio, and print about conservatives demanding a pure party would take notice.
But that would shatter their whole narrative. And the last thing anyone wants to do at the next party at the Met or Sally Quinn’s house is mention the latest liberal friend in rehab or that maybe their group think on conservatives is shallow, self-serving, and vain.
Amen to that.