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Evidently the White House, noting the blatant liberal bias of the New York Times, is declining to grant many kinds of access to their reporters. From Drudge today:
Brokaw Astonished Over NYTimes Reporter Being Banned By White House
Tue Nov 30 2004 10:09:36 ET
Outgoing NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw was asked on MSNBC’s HARDBALL Monday if the Bush White House has been tough with the press corps, citing as an example of Dick Cheney stipulating no NEW YORK TIMES reporters on his trips.
Brokaw said, “I think they have been too tough.
“The idea that this White House has not given Tom Friedman a long, in-depth interview is astonishing to me. I have had a very good relationship with them, I have gotten to interview the President a lot. I have had access on the phone and other areas and I have been very vigorous in my discussions with them. But no reporter that I know covering national politics and the international policies that are of such great concern today know as much about them as Tom Friedman does and they have completely shut out the NEW YORK TIMES.”
It’s about time. The NY Times has been suppressing the news that supports conservatives in an effort to control how people vote. They have no right at all to be considered a legitimate news-gathering organization.
George Orwell’s 1984 foretold that the great public organizations would misuse their power in an effort to suppress information and control how people think. Orwell thought it would be the government exerting control over the media to do this; instead, mainstream media has been doing it on its own.
But thanks to new media—bloggers, cable news, and talk radio—we the people have caught on. Jay Rosen cites numerous examples:
Mega bloggers and syndicated columnists said it. College students and ranting professors said it. Bob Dole said it. The real loser, the big loser in ‘04 was The Media—“the famous MSM.” I isolate the maneuver and show it to you 21 times, without comment. Well, not totally without comment.
...I have culled from a far larger file 21 examples of this particular maneuver. I tried to isolate the passage where it happens: Writer Says Media is Election’s Big Loser. By approaching the same “switch” with different trains of thought, we can perhaps understand that substantial body of opinion and what it is really saying—not just about winners and losers but about politics and journalism, party and self, virtue and corruption.
I opted for a mix of voices from big to small, established to upstart, old media and new. At the end I have a few words of commentary. Mostly, I leave interpretation for the comment thread. Here it is, then, the same idea served 21 ways. “Media, you lost big.”
The weakness of MSM is that they depend on their own ability to fool the public. Once that ends, they find themselves thrown out of the White House and increasingly ignored by the public. They have to reform, and I believe they will.
Update 12-02-04. Welcome, Carnival of the Vanities readers! This site is proud to have this article included in the latest Carnival of the Vanities, hosted this week by Ashish’s Niti.
