Sunday, June 13, 2004
The Media Is Conservative?
This article does a good job of showing how the current spat of arguments to this effect are wrong.
My critique of this line of argumentation would be the following: many are arguing the media is generally conservative because it is owned by corporations. They take a very socialist belief. Anything to do with corporatians must be conservative. Well, a ton of rich professionals in NYC are very liberal. I don't buy this. And pretty much every survey tells us that the media is overwhelming liberal. If this was 15 years ago, prior to the Internet and alternate media, I would really care. But I don't. Liberals may not be used to other voices getting wide play. But they shouldn't sweat it either.
This article does a good job of showing how the current spat of arguments to this effect are wrong.
My critique of this line of argumentation would be the following: many are arguing the media is generally conservative because it is owned by corporations. They take a very socialist belief. Anything to do with corporatians must be conservative. Well, a ton of rich professionals in NYC are very liberal. I don't buy this. And pretty much every survey tells us that the media is overwhelming liberal. If this was 15 years ago, prior to the Internet and alternate media, I would really care. But I don't. Liberals may not be used to other voices getting wide play. But they shouldn't sweat it either.
