Posted on 07/25/2010 3:10:50 AM PDT by Scanian
In 2007, when Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein founded JournoList, an online gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists, he imagined a discussion group that would connect young writers to top sources.
But in the heat of a bitter presidential campaign in 2008, the lists discussions veered into collusion and coordination at key political moments, documents revealed this week by The Daily Caller show.
In a key episode, JournoList members openly plotted to bury attention on then-candidate Barack Obamas controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Washington Independents Spencer Ackerman, for instance, suggested an effective tactic to distract from the issue would be to pick one of Obamas critics, Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares and call them racists.
Conservative critics of Washingtons journalistic establishment have long charged the media with a striking liberal bias. But those critics have also said the problem was mostly unintentional, the result of a press corps made up mostly of Democratic-leaning scribes.
Yet JournoLists discussions show an influential left-wing faction of the media participating in a far more intentional sort of liberal bias.
JournoLists members included dozens of straight-news reporters from major news organizations, including Time, Newsweek, The Associated Press, Reuters, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, PBS and a large NPR affiliate in California.
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“Mange tusend tak” (Many thousand thanks: old Norhoogian expression) to both of you! We have to get a one-year-old, couple hundred dollar printer fixed, or replace it with a forty dollar ink jet, but I will print the names you’ve gathered and stand ready to respond to the journolistas. The right general response, of course, is “Shut up, Liar!”
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