Liberal Bias in Black and White
The now-legendary late-hit of the Los Angeles Times on Arnold five days before the election has had the salutary effect of making the major media’s liberal bias unavoidably clear to all.
I remember being a guest at a dinner party in LA back in 1986. Among the others was a vice-president of the Times-Mirror Corp. (the then-owner of the LA Times) and a senior analyst for the Rand Corp. who specialized in the Soviet Union. When the executive asked the analyst for his opinion of the Times’ coverage of world events, the reply was: “I read Pravda in the original Russian every day, and I read the Times. If you translated Times articles into Russian and then mixed them up with those of Pravda, I would not be able to tell the difference between them in terms of a pro-Soviet/anti-America slant.”
Liberal media bias has not lessened in the intervening 17 years. It is so pervasive that the American public only notices it when it blows its cover such as the LAT hit on Arnold. Everyone recognized it then, but how about the following stories during the past week:
Thursday, October 2. Washington Post headline: “Outside Probe of Leaks Is Favored.” The WaPo claims “81 percent of Americans consider the matter [Novak’s leak of a CIA analyst’s name] serious.” Washington Times headline: “CIA-leak Story Beltway-only Buzz.” Numerous surveys quoted by the WT disclosed that the great majority of Americans “beyond the Beltway” were far more concerned with issues as the FTC’s “do not call” list and the partial-birth abortion debate.
Friday, October 3. Washington Post headline: “Search in Iraq Finds No Banned Weapons.” Washington Times headline: “Evidence of Arms ‘Intent’ Found.” The liberal media’s distortion of arms inspector David Kay’s initial findings on WMD in Iraq borders on the hysterical. Kay has uncovered massive evidence of Saddam’s WMD duplicity, and the WaPo simply brushed it aside.
Saturday. October 4. Washington Post headline: “Labor Force Grows Slightly.” Washington Times headline: “Job Gains Halt Long Losing Streak.” The WaPo wouldn’t want its readers to think an increase in employment was good news, would it?
The bottom line to this is that virtually all the members of the major liberal media — Time, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, et al — have abandoned even the pretense of objective journalism and have become overt propaganda organs of the Democrat Party.
All of them en masse are engaged in a deception to portray the Bush Presidency in as bad a light as they can conjure for the purpose of defeating Bush and the Republicans in November 2004.
This makes it more imperative than ever that alternative sources of information — talk radio like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal (at least the editorial page), and, yes, ToThePoint — be available and disseminated as widely as possible.
ToThePoint offers a perspective and insight on the world that you just don’t get anywhere else. It is a uniquely valuable antidote to the pestilence of propaganda continually spewed by the liberal media. You, our readers, can play a role in inoculating your friends from this pestilence by telling them about ToThePoint, by forwarding on to them ToThePoint articles, and by suggesting they consider becoming subscribing ToThePointers themselves.
The LA Times hit on Arnold is a harbinger of ever more frantic efforts of journalistic deception and deceit. I’d like to personally ask you to help provide the antidote of ToThePoint to anyone you care about. Thanks…
Jack Wheeler