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A year ago I talked about the bias of mainstream media to friends who had never heard of the subject before. Today a top administration official has discussed the subject in detail with a leading national magazine.
In an interview for The New Yorker, Karl Rove discusses in detail his views on the bias of mainstream media. From a NewsMax discussion of the interview:
The Times employed the underhanded technique of surveying new registrants in the most heavily Democratic and Republican ZIP Codes in Florida and Ohio – an unnecessary effort in Florida, where voters register by party, and misleading in Ohio, where the Republicans were finding most of their new voters in precincts (not ZIP Codes) that had not voted heavily Republican in the past.
Rove told Lemann that he believed the Times had allowed itself to be fed its data by Democratic organizations.
Lemann makes the point that from the president on down, the Bush campaign, not surprisingly, all but ignored the self-proclaimed newspaper of record. He reports that Vice President Dick Cheney’s staff, for example, “found that it had no room for the Times reporter even to travel in the press section of its plane.”
This could not have happened without the emergence of the blogosphere, documenting publicly for the first time the bias of MSM.
[Interviewer] Lemann concludes with the observation that “journalists in the mainstream media are starting to worry ‘what if people don’t believe in us, don’t want us anymore?’”
The journalists are starting to catch on that this isn’t going away.
See also this related article, posted here in November: White House to NY TIMES: You Have to Play Fair if You Want to Play.
