Stained Wretches

It continuously astounds me that people can doubt that our media is slanted decisively to the left. The whole Journolist affair has opened a window into this feature of our establishment media.

While there are certainly many decent reporters out there trying to do an honest job of reporting (and I rely on their reporting for blogging), there are too many influential journalists who think of themselves as the women's auxiliary to their favorite club, willing to do what it takes to achieve victory.

I underestimated the amount of conscious thought that forms the herd mentality of our press corps in practice, it seems.

And I'm not sure whether this political bias is more important in explaining their abysmal record of reporting military and foreign policy stories than is explained by their almost complete lack of military and history knowledge.

Oh well. Once we had blue collar reporters who took pride in getting the story even though they didn't have the modern benefits of journalism schools that lead graduates to believe that reporting news is beneath their college education that prepared them to interpret the news for dim-witted readers and listeners too bovine in their lack of curiosity to put the facts together.

Ah, progress. Now our reporters have no contact with ink, at all.

UPDATE: Why conspire when everyone thinks the same way anyway? That's probably the way to look at this despite the wrongness of trying to coordinate messages for one side they "reported" on. Well, that and the complete lack of military and history knowledge explains their failures.

And yet E. J. Dionne, the Washington Post's resident political hack, believes that it is time to stand up to the right wing. Yeah, the Left has the White House, Congress, the universities, Hollywood, Europe, and the entire television media except for Fox News on their side, and it is finally time for the Left to fight back. Are these people stoned?