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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
The people who work in the media are drawn from a narrow slice of American society. Urban, educated, liberal, cosmopolitan, young, tech-savvy. The way many of their fellow-citizens live is as alien to them as how Uruguayans live. For every American who uses twitter there are two who do not even have internet access. Americans increasingly live in mutually-incomprehensible worlds.
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I'm not sure what the hell this means? We shouldn't listen to educated people who are well travelled, well read, and experienced in the subjects they are covering? We should instead rely on the less educated, who have never left their farms, nor dealt with someone unlike themselves? Also, I think you should review some of the top journalists in the business today. You might be surprised as to where they grew up and how it contradicts your perception.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Not the way social justice is thought of these days. Similarly, when you say the media is classically liberal based on its ontology, you're equivocating. When he says that MSNBC and TYT have a "liberal bias", he really means a leftist bias. And he's right. I like Rachel Maddow, but there's no doubt she's no more impartial than Sean Hannity. MSNBC has attempted to get a niche market as the 24 hour cable news network for the Left, the answer to Fox. I don't know why you're spending so much time rebutting something so obvious.
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Because it is not true. Just because you want to believe something is true does not make it true. You can go to your theology class and embrace creationism all you want, but it doesn't make it true. You may believe as hard as you like, but the reality is different than your belief. Believing that Young Turks is reflective of the mass media is crazy. It isn't journalism and doesn't portray itself as journalism. Using that to portray bias is like using Sharknado as an example of fine cinema.