Bias

A former CBS reporter describes what it's like to work inside the Obama Fan Club (a.k.a., mainstream news media). This anecdote stands out:

Reporting on the many green-energy firms such as Solyndra that went belly-up after burning through hundreds of millions in Washington handouts, Attkisson ran into increasing difficulty getting her stories on the air. A colleague told her about the following exchange: “[The stories] are pretty significant,” said a news exec. “Maybe we should be airing some of them on the ‘Evening News?’ ” Replied the program’s chief Pat Shevlin, “What’s the matter, don’t you support green energy?”

And that sums up the problem, doesn't it? If the news director is pausing to consider what he should or should not "support," then he's not delivering news, he's shoveling propaganda.

This started fifty years ago, the love affair between "counterculture," the Democrats and the media. Now we're seeing the fruits of that abominable coalition. It's become absolutely pervasive in American and British society, to that point that the hard lean to the left seems centrist to two entire generations of people. They grew up on the constant stream of distortions from the alphabet channel news shows, with the consequence that they now sincerely believe that Fox News is a hard right propaganda outlet. I guess it's understandable why they'd think that: when you're sitting on the left edge of the cliff, pretty much everything looks like it's to the right... even when it's dead center.