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Friday, December 16, 2005
Isolation right
Right wing reaction to Newsweek's assertion that Bush, who refuses to read newspapers or give speeches to unscreened audiences, is in a "bubble":
But the funniest part in all of this is that two self-important writers from the media elite, Evan Thomas and Richard Wolffe of Newsweek, consider someone else -- anybody else! -- "isolated" from the rest of the world. These are the same kind of guys who wonder where all those "red states" came from. And how the rest of the country can be so backward on issues like homosexual rights, full-blown abortion-on-demand, guns, traditional values and paying less to the federal government to do jobs they don't want the federal government to do.
...The Lichter, Rothman and Lichter studies began back in the 1980s to take the "balanced" facade off the national media. The researchers interviewed 238 journalists from the entire spectrum of mass media including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS and asked them questions about their backgrounds and beliefs.
The research is old but the reality lives. Guess what? The media elite were liberals. A healthy majority admitted it; even more admitted it of their colleagues. Half had no religious affiliation at all; only 8 percent attended church or synagogue weekly. Just 17 percent placed themselves on the conservative right of the political spectrum. Only nine percent were convinced that homosexuality was morally wrong. Fifty-four percent saw nothing wrong with adultery; only 15 percent "strongly agreed" that extra-marital affairs were wrong. Ninety percent believed a woman should have a right to an abortion.
Bush isn't the only one choosing to isolate himself from reality. Matt Friedeman, author of the above, chooses to live in a world where the media landscape hasn't changed in the last 25 years. In his bubble, the all-powerful, all-liberal media elites are constantly conspiring to bring down the greatest president ever. It's a little like the final shot of the last episode of St. Elsewhere.
