Posted by
Andrews on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:12:00 PM
Quite a while ago, I wrote an essay on the fact that journalism self-selects for a certain type of individual and that self-selection leads to ideological bias. While that is not the primary focus of either the
Best of the Web article or the
Murchison article it quotes, it is nice to see this quote pretty much mirroring what I said so long ago:
After Watergate the paradigmatic reporter was a man--or, now, a
woman--with a high-minded mission; namely to instruct society
concerning its tastes and habits; to improve things. . . .
The politics of the breed of reporter who entered the business after Watergate was, most of the time, liberal.
Then again, it seems so self-evident to me, I don't know how excited I should be that others are noticing this obvious trend.
But I suppose if only now other people are pointing out the obvious, maybe it wasn't so obvious after all.
POSTSCRIPT
For those who are not in on the joke, this is a long running set of facetious articles. The most recent installments were "
Walter Williams Imitates Me", "
Best of the Web Imitates Me (Imitating John Stossel) XV", "
Best of the Web Imitates Me XVI", "
Slate Imitates Me", "
Cal Thomas Imitates Me, Not Once But Twice", "
Walter Williams Agrees With Me (And Gets Attacked For It)", "
An Unnamed Source in Doug MacKinnon's Piece Imitates Me and I am NOT Flattered", and "
House Imitates Me".
For those who never follow links, let me summarize: This is a joke, it should not be taken seriously, not even a little bit.