It's not that it swings both ways, but that it doesn't rise to the occasion
December 24, 2002
Neal Gabler on the Media Bias Myth
The dirty little secret of network newscasts, and of most major newspapers, is not that they are manned by liberal proselytizers. It is that they are trying to attract the widest possible viewership, or readership, and that doing so necessitates that they be as inoffensive as possible. That is why investigative reports seem so toothless, gumming away at government boondoggles or consumer fraud or corrupt politicians that are unlikely to infuriate either the left or the right....
Posted by Jody at December 24, 2002 12:03 AM
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