[arderkrag]

Yep. Most journalists honestly go into journalism to try to change the world around them, not report the actual story. Thus they frame stories to fit their mold of success.

[Steve_Seattle]

Many years ago, liberal Democrat Sen. Eugene McCarthy made this comment about the press, and it's still true today: "The press is like a flock of birds sitting on a wire. They sit and sit and sit, and when one flies off in a certain direction, all the others follow." Nothing I've seen in the past 30 years contradicts that. Newsrooms are like echo-chambers; a newsroom full of liberal Democrats is an atmosphere where the conventional liberal wisdom is never questioned, but constantly reinforced. This coupled with their arrogant assumptions that they are both unbiased and smarter than everyone else, makes them almost impervious to facts which do not fit their worldview.

Thus, when Obama purports to "open the discussion about race," a discussion that has actually been going on for more than 50 years, the libs in the MSM all applaud him for his pioneering courage. Everybody else just scratches their head and says, "Haven't we been here before?"