Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!plunkett From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (S. Plunkett) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Liberal media bias Message-ID: <160@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 13:16:11 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.160 Posted: Mon Oct 1 13:16:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 07:24:09 EDT Distribution: net Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 43 .. In view of the interest here about the press and it's biases (or whether they exist) I draw your attention to a pertinent Wall Street Journal editorial of Oct. 1, 1984, first paragraph of which is quoted here: "The ethicists of the press have been clucking about two things these past two weeks, and the comparison tells a lot about their standards, moral and professional. Despite the release of a 385-page independent counsel's report, they have decided questions remain to be asked about the financial affairs of Ed Meese and his wife. But all questions about the finances of Geraldine Ferraro and her husband have been answered, and anyone insisting on asking more will get booed by the defenders of the public's right to know." At a conference some months ago in Washington attended by Rupert Murdoch (News America) and Ben Bradlee (Executive Editor of the Washington Post) the following question was addressed: "Is there a liberal media elite?" R. Murdoch stated plainly, that, yes, there is. B. Bradlee squirmed and fidgeted, waffled and evaded, and would not be pinned down to even *denying* that there is a liberal elite. Others, like Hodding Carter III, perceive a bias, but not a liberal one. To him it is actually a conservative bias, one that is manifested by conformity, patriotism, fiscal responsibility, and the like. One supposes that to be a `liberal' in H. Carter's eyes one must be a flaming marxist. Anyone witnessing the applause from the reporters at the end of Rep. Ferraro's press-conference where she supposedly laid bare her finances, and the resounding silence on the Meese affair might well note a liberal bias. I also note an utter lack of professionalism. Which is the worse charge, I don't know. Scott Plunkett, ..{ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett