[dirtboy]

For more than a month, one of our national papers of record, The New York Times, has been examining "conservative forces in religion, politics, law, business and the media."

Gee, the Times makes conservative America seem like a foreign country. Which, to them, it is.

[longtermmemmory]

Groupthink run amuck.

Probaly will be done with the same validity as reporters self examination as to why the left't bodily waste does not stink.

Will there be a leftist "beat"? of course not.

This is just a propaganda trick to marginalize conservatives as a "group". Newsflash to NYT, conservatives are the MAJORITY.

Only 17% will admit they are liberals. Modernliberalism is equal to intollerance and self absorbtion.

Heck given the last few days, anyone who is a Democrat can be assumed to be a homosexual unless they state otherwise.

[Always Right]

Here is a concept, why doesn't the New York Times actually hire a couple conservative reporters. I know conservatives only make up about 40% of the population, but maybe the New York Times can find one or two. Or maybe finding one reporter who doesn't believe in abortion on demand, that global warming is gonna doom us all, or that Bush is Hitler but a decent man, is way too much to ask....

[PBRSTREETGANG]

What does a conservative beat mean for The New York Times?

At the NY Times? It probably means that they outfit the editorial staff with clubs and chase down a conservative in the park. What else could it mean?

[NativeSon]

The Times thinks it can cover all of those conservative forces with only one reporter.

Wait a minute! I enjoyed being part of a "vast Right Wing conspiracy".

[pabianice]

The New York Times photographs a Bush Rally...

[CFC__VRWC]

Mr. Keller offered two explanations of "what this is about." The first is that the paper wants to get beyond "the shorthand you use for any interest group" and instead try "to figure out why people believe what they do, how big their constituency is, where it comes from."

Oh, I see - this is all about scaring the bejeezus out of the real people (Upper West Side latte sippers, Palm Beach condo commies and Nantucket neo-Bolsheviks) so they'll flock to the polls in November and vote for the "nuanced" candidate, John Kerry.

"These conservatives are everywhere! They own guns, watch NASCAR, actually attend church and don't believe US soldiers are bloodthirsty raping Huns. And they're EVEN ALLOWED TO VOTE!!!!!"

[Cicero]

The New York Times is so firmly embedded in "we" and "they" ways of thinking that they hardly notice it.

Bill Keller wants "to figure out why people believe what they do, how big their constituency is, where it comes from."

Who are those Little Green Men out there?

[Finalapproach29er]

Since they don't have any influnece in the conservative movement right now, they getting into it so they can try to influence it.

Its like us being in the Arab world; we hope by being there we can steer it a certain direction.

[GulliverSwift]

Here's an idea: if your newsroom is perceived as too liberal. How about hiring some conservatives instead of discriminating against them?

[PJ-Comix]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! The NY Times is acting like covering conservatives is like examining some sort of Alien Life Form.

"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it!"

[jmcclain19]

I would have loved to been a fly on the wall during that editorial meeting.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, it seems we have a strange phenomenon occurring out in America.

A whole swath of people are causing all kinds of trouble, mucking up the works, they actually want to change the direction America is going"

*GASP*

"Johnson, assign a beat reporter immediately. These people, these "conservatives" must be watched at all costs"