Posted on 6/24/2004, 4:12:31 PM by MindBender26
Parker admits newspaper reporters slant to left. Says papers are foolish to try to attract more readers by hiring more, even more liberal, Affirmative Action employees.
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Maybe this lady will start a blog after they force her out...
She can start counting her friends. . .
"Is it possible we're looking for love in all the wrong places? Let me be blunt. Newspapers bite. The work isn't much fun anymore, thanks to the soul-snatching corporate culture that has euthanized newsroom personalities. Most papers reflect that numbers-crunching, cubicle-hunkering mentality. We're boring, predictable, staid and out of touch with the folks with quarters. Nobody rushes to the rack anymore to see what the paper's great voices have to say because there aren't many great voices left."
" Distrust is also tied to the reality "disconnect" between those who produce newspapers and those who read them. Yes, the media tilt left and the Earth is round. A recent poll by the Pew Research Center that has journalists debating themselves reports that the elite media are far more liberal than the public ("Ordinary Americans," as the elites like to call you). While 34 percent of journalists self-identify as liberal, only 20 percent of Ordinary Americans do. Only 7 percent of journalists consider themselves conservative, compared with 33 percent of the public.
"Even those figures may be misleading, as a large majority of journalists consider themselves moderate. You be the judge. In 1992, 89 percent of Washington journalists voted for Bill Clinton, and 90 percent of journalists believe in a woman's right to abortion."
GooD Line......
"As with the Cosmo girl who can't find her man, it's not the makeup that's wrong; it's the soul that's gone missing."
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker.html
Was the columnist Charlie Rose by any chance?
Rose was being interviewed on TV yesterday and said that newspapers are more concerned with propogating their propoganda than with profits. That the propoganda value means more to them than the money.
This column ran in the Cincinnati Enquire about five days ago, and as usual she's dead on the mark.
My favorite all time column by Ms Parker was the one talking about the "September 10th Commission" from an alternative universe.
Great closing line by Ms. Parker. Expect she'll be fired any day now. At least that's what they do at my local rag whenever some journalist seems to be straying off the reservation.
I would have to disagree with Chuck. Newspapers depend on money just as much as they do their propaganda whether it's homegrown from their own reporters or news wire reports from the AP.
It doesn't matter if she's listened to, because she chickened out of telling the truth, which is that affirmative action destroyed newspapers. Those AA hires are the ones screaming "racism" whenever some truth spills onto a paper's pages, demanding that they be given control over all stories regaridng race, ethnicity, immigration, etc., and sandbagging any white reporters with the temerity to write honestly on corrupt black politicians, illegal immigration, etc.
And .. not just talk radio but the internet.
I can find lots of stuff on the internet that never makes it to TV. I think that's why the public is so well informed, compared to past years.
The other upswing .. the young people who have grown up on the internet and are definitely turning toward the right.
If Rose was promoting a book, then i would expect him to say something provocative like this. But it was just an article he wrote as far as i can tell. You make sense, of course, saying newspapers need money to survive, but Rose has been in the business a long time. He must have some insights about this.
Unfortunately "diversity" in the newsroom means hiring a black liberal, a Chinese-American liberal, a Hispanic liberal, a Native American liberal, and a liberal from God knows where. It's a self-perpetuating mold that they recognize perfectly well, but cannot break, and hence simply deny that it impacts the news. The sales figures tell another story.
The policy to install a de facto quota system will make the newspapers even tilt more left than it is. How about a true diversity quota based on ideas.
Well, at least he did admit most newspapers tend to lean left, I will give him that much, for that I agree with him on. I've been in the radio business for close to 20 years, and the radio business follows basically the same model which is that the marketability of the product (be it the radio station itself and/or it's programming or newspaper) will in turn sell ads which in turn pays the bill.
TV, radio, and print media serves as mere compendiums to the electronic media, IMHO.
Back in the day, journalists used to try and report the non-biased facts of a story, to get at "the truth". Now reporters seek to sway public opinion on issues, making entire front sections of papers read like the editorial pages. People catch on after a while - a conservative doesn't want to pay to be insulted day-after-day.
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