
Michael Goodwin of the New York Post has an interesting piece today about how the New York Times has pretty much sold out for the sake of taking Donald Trump down. Granted, the Post is a competitor to the Times and definitely has a more rightward slant than the Old Gray Lady, but Goodwin is pretty spot on in his analysis:
Opinions, all uniformly anti-Trump, now ooze from the paper’s every pore, with headlines on front-page “news” articles indistinguishable from daily denunciations on the editorial and op-ed pages.
This is not a mere continuation of the old liberal bias that infected the Times, the Washington Post and the broadcast networks for years. This is a malignant strain of conformity that strips away any pretense of fairness in favor of strident partisanship.
And:
Simply put, his political bias precludes fair journalism. And once standards are gone, they are gone forever,
The problem here, though, is that the standards had pretty much gone the way of the Back Street Boys a long time ago. There’s plenty of documentary evidence that most major news outlets have been carrying water for the left (journalists are almost uniformly registered as Democrats, and the overwhelming majority of major journalism schools are run by left wingers)–so what’s so new about the way the media are attacking Trump? After all, when they went after Mitt Romney (probably the most personally charitable and decent man ever to run for the White House), by the time the media were done with him he was a tax-dodging high-school gay basher who hated dogs and was responsible for the cancer death of the wife of a former employee of his.
Well, the big difference this time around is how open the media are about their bias against Trump: He’s dangerous. He’s vulgar. How can we possibly let this guy have his finger on the nuclear trigger? Journalists, by God, have a duty to see to it that Trump doesn’t get anywhere near the White House! And all this, to me, is a good thing. What’s been most insidious about media bias is how the media have tried to cloak themselves in this pretense of objectivity, as if they were disinterested observers merely trying to keep the citizenry informed about matters of great importance. The truth, however, is that journalists of that stripe are a vanishing breed. Most would rather be pundits pushing an agenda–and so they do. If they want to take off the mask and show everyone who they really are, that’s Jim Dandy with me.
The problem, though, is what comes after the election. If by some miracle Trump wins, they’ll maintain their adversarial role (which is how it should be all the time); but if Hillary Clinton becomes president, they’ll retreat back into their holes and start pumping out the propaganda again. If that’s the case, you better get used to living in the Matrix–because you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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