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Mash-Up: Edsall vs. HalperinI thought I'd mash-up two articles getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere. The first is Thomas Edsall's good (mostly) article on liberal media bias. And how liberals in the media should stop pretending they're not liberal, stop lying, take ownership of the problem, and correct it. The other is Mark Halperin's absurd grading of the Obama Administration. Halperin must be thanking God right now that the Nobel committee made him only the second biggest joke of the day (and, in fairness, a fairly distant second). But I'm not done with him yet. I trust you'll be able to tell which is which. I have made frequent cuts without notice (as it would be disruptive to the nature of this mash-up). In one case (the discussion of the media's belief conservatives are stupid), I've moved Edsall's order of topics in order to make a better comparison at the end. I recommend a reading of Edsall's critique in full -- we can deal with his claim that conservatives can't be real journalists later -- and Halperin's risible autoerotic beclowning too, just for the lulz. Correction/Note: Halperin's piece is not, as I thought, new. It is in fact a grading from Obama's first 100 days. Not sure why the Seinfeld Presidency deserved such high marks then, either -- seems ludicrous to grade him after such a short period of time, and give him "A-'s" to boot. But this was an error of assumption on my part, and I'm sorry about that. Still: I like the mash-up. “Many readers were not buying [the] contention that liberal bias had nothing to do with the slow response to ACORN and, before that, to the resignation of Van Jones, a White House aide,” Hoyt wrote this past Sunday. Barack Obama, President Grade: A- The actions at both the Post and the Times are ad hoc reactions to the latest blow up, and do little or nothing to address the underlying reality at most papers. Joe Biden, Vice President Grade: A- In a UCLA study of media bias, reporters were found to be substantially more liberal and more Democratic than the public at large. Hoyt, in a column last year, acknowledged this finding: “Being human, journalists do have personal biases, and a long line of studies has shown that they tend to be more socially and politically liberal than the population at large. There is no reason to believe Times journalists are any different.” Michelle Obama, First Lady Grade: A+ Along the same lines, reporters might consider carefully the question of why the party of the left in this country, the party that claims to represent Jane and Joe Sixpack, has such trouble winning the votes of the white working class. The answer may lie more in the issue of redistributed benefits than in a right-wing conspiracy.
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Reporters might also attempt to think outside the prism of their own experience. Why did so many fail to see the news value when they learned from Glenn Beck that Van Jones, Obama’s environmental czar, had signed a 2004 petition accusing the Bush administration of deliberately allowing the 9/11 attacks to occur, calling for an “immediate inquiry,” and noting that a survey of New Yorkers showed 41 percent believed “US leaders had foreknowledge of impending 9/11 attacks and ‘consciously failed’ to act? Similarly, what form of ideological myopia prompted the mainstream press to miss for days the story of ACORN staffers advising a self-proclaimed pimp and prostitute on ways to illegally get federal grants and to falsely fill out loan applications?
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