Originally posted by Daisy:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by KenH:
I reckon the Bush hating crowd thinks the New York Times leans conservative.
The "Gray Old Lady"? The NYTimes is the epitomy of mainstream. </font>[/QUOTE]I hope you will agree that no human being is free from their personal biases when they approach events and report them. Not me. Not you. Not the people who work for the times.
That said, I don't think we are going out on a limb too badly by suggesting that most if not all of the news editors are liberal Democrats as well as most if not all of the reporters.
Bias is not always how you report but also "what" you report. I'll be honest enough to say that my interest is sparked more by good news for "my side" and bad news for the "other side". That's human nature and the editing and reporting of the Times, AP, Reuters, CNN, etc. reflect a liberal perspective and bias.
As Goldberg suggested, liberals aren't in some conspiracy. It is just a result of their worldview that the news is biased toward liberalism.
The NYT may be "mainstream" for the liberal media establishment or New York but it isn't "mainsteam" in comparison to flyover country... which btw currently constitutes more than 51% of the electorate.
Message from Missouri to NY... we don't like the attitude of the liberal elites toward us... we don't like being told how stupid we are for being conservative... and we don't like one-sided reporting/editing like we see from the NYT.
Whine as they may, the success of FoxNews', conservative talk radio, internet news, bloggers, etc is a direct result of the media establishment being so completely out of touch with the values of the majority of Americans. They think the people they attend dinner parties with or meet at left-leaning political events are "mainstream". They need to get "out" more.