The 12-Step Plan For Journalists

U.S. News- Washington Whispers ^ | 10/27/03 | Paul Bedard

[Pokey78]

Bernie Goldberg is back to spanking the liberal media, and guess what? His network targets still won't let him inside the door. Even after his first book, Bias, proved to be extremely popular, the networks have barred Goldberg and his new book, Arrogance, despite his predictions that he'd draw huge audiences. "I didn't think anything trumped ratings," he says, "but something does--ideology." His latest book, due out next month, is more than liberal baiting, though there's enough Dan Rather bashing to satisfy any dittohead starved by the absence of Rush Limbaugh during his drug dry-out. Goldberg offers a thoughtful 12-step plan to moderate newsrooms. Modeled after the Alcoholics Anonymous plan, his goal is diversity beyond skin color. "You've gotta diversify thought," he begs. Is the 28-year CBS vet, now retired, winning the fight? We recently heard a CBS White House correspondent fess that reporters do lean left but are worried more about their reputation than politics. Good enough? "No!" Goldberg tells us. "They still have that liberal perspective."

[clintonh8r]

Step 1 should be: Stop thinking of yourself as a "journalist." Think of yourself as a treasonous, scabrous, repulsive, lying, self-loathing lapdog for the anti-American looney left and its various hate-group components.

That should be the first step to recovery.

[Angelus Errare]

I can back that one up. My Journalism, Reporting, and Mass Communication classes have all been dominated by liberal professors, most of whom operate on the policy of "Wrong-thinking will be punished, right-wing will be rewarded." In my own experience, anybody with remotely conservative political views is quickly identified and then stigmatized.

Their idea of ideological diversity is the difference between Howard Dean and Karl Marx. That is the range into which all acceptable opinions must fall, everything else is simply dismissed as irrational. In a funny way, the liberal mindset in higher education is not unlike that of the caricature of religious fundamentalists that they abbhor so much.

Most parents would be up in arms if they ever heard half of the clap-trap that goes on in any number of classrooms, even those in subjects completely unrelated to politics.

[fishbabe]

i like the words,NAZI HACK......

[okie01]

"In a funny way, the liberal mindset in higher education is not unlike that of the caricature of religious fundamentalists that they abbhor so much."

That is because liberalism itself has become not unlike a religion. It must be accepted totally on faith, because there is absolutely no empirical data to otherwise support the belief.

Thus, the liberal academics perform a function equivalent to high priests. It is they who must conduct the living sacrifice of unrepentant young conservatives on their altars.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Liberalism as a religion?

Absolutely!

[Angelus Errare]

I tend to agree. More to the point, even if there is data that supports their assertions, they don't often cite it, at least in class. The basic gist of college liberalism is that you either subscribe to a lengthy creed that encompasses everything from social to economic to foreign policy issues (the most recent item being the war in Iraq) or you get labeled "intolerant," which tends to carry the same connotation as "heretic" or "infidel" these days.

And believe me, it doesn't stop with ridiculing or belittling the beliefs young conservatives. I've heard anti-American and anti-Bush rants that make MEMRI's translated Arab screeds pale by comparison. The willingness to believe the worst about America and the best about anyone who opposes us pretty much encapsulates American college liberalism.

Which brings me to an interesting question. We are told oh-so-often that "diversity" is important on college campuses, hence all the need for affirmative action. Isn't ideological diversity a LOT more important to getting different viewpoints than racial diversity? So why is there no parallel program set up to hire conservative professors?

[agitator]

Take a look at this.

http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/Marxism2000/schedule.html

That's a UMass Amherst site hosted at Notre Dame. Look at the roster of speakers and where they work.

The first thing this country needs to do shut down all of the state universities and then conduct a review of all instructors and summarily FIRE all of the marxists and see to it that they can never infest the state university system again.

[Angelus Errare]

Dear Lord, I wish I could say that I was surprised that there were that many. And keep in mind, most of professors that I was mentioning are more or less considered "moderates" by comparison.

I agree, a serious reform of the US educational system needs to be implemented, especially in the area of higher education. I just wish that Congress or the state legislatures had the balls to do something about it.

[okie01]

"So why is there no parallel program set up to hire conservative professors?"

You know perfectly well why not.

And, as to the quest for "diversity" on campus, Dr. Thomas Sowell has accurately defined the liberal academic meaning as: a campus full of people who all look different...and think exactly alike.