October 10, 2003
I've never been a huge fan of Al Gore, but this new initiative to create a liberal media network to counteract the effects of Fox News gets him high marks. But now it's been a week since the first reports of the imminent deal, so things may have stalled. And in the meantime, there's this poll showing the American people still think the media is more liberal than conservative. Does this mean Americans actually believe Fox is "fair and balanced"? Or maybe they think the media is liberal because that's what Fox told them?
Repeat a lie long enough and it settles in the public psyche. It was (Godwin approaches) Hitler's favorite tactic.
The truth is true journalists are probably a little more liberal as a group than the public, but commentators, editors, and most of all owners and publishers of major media outlets overwhelmingly come from the conservative side of the house.
When you look at the media in the U.S. and the media in Europe you can see that the U.S. really has few truly liberal outlets. Mostly it's shades of moderate to conservative all trying to represent themselves as dead center.
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