{"id":1557,"date":"2010-02-11T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T05:31:13","slug":"the-rights-top-25-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"The Right’s Top 25 Journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tunku Varadarajan, national affairs correspondent for The Daily Beast, has compiled a list of what he and 50 academics, politicians, and journalists, consider to be the top 25 right-wing journalists<\/a> in America. The most enlightening thing we learn from this list has nothing to do with the ranking of wingnuts in the media. What is truly fascinating is how it reveals their definition of a journalist. Here are the top 10:<\/p>\n

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  1. Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Glenn Beck, Fox News<\/li>\n
  3. Rush Limbaugh, Radio Talk Show Host<\/li>\n
  4. Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal<\/li>\n
  5. Bill O’Reilly, Fox News<\/li>\n
  6. Michelle Malkin, Fox News\/Blogger<\/li>\n
  7. David Brooks, The New York Times<\/li>\n
  8. Sean Hannity, Fox News<\/li>\n
  9. James Taranto, The Wall Street Journal<\/li>\n
  10. Matt Drudge, The Drudge Report<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To be fair, placing Paul Gigot at the top of the list recognizes a veteran newsman who spent decades with ink-stained fingers pursuing his vocation as a reporter and editor. While devotedly right-wing in his current role as an editorialist and commentator, he also has the resume of a bona fide journalist. And that makes him the ONLY journalist on the list.<\/p>\n

    It is nearly hysterical that the 50 unnamed participants in this project elevated Glenn Beck to second place; and Rush Limbaugh to third; and Bill O’Reilly to fifth; and … well you get the idea. What’s more, Varadarajan obviously has a soft spot in his heart for his former employer, Rupert Murdoch. Seven of the top 10 are also Murdoch minions employed by either Fox News or the Wall Street Journal. I wonder if some of the few real journalists at those shops are upset that they were ignored in favor of Sean Hannity and Peggy Noonan?<\/p>\n

    It is rather telling that an assembly of conservative academics, politicians, and journalists, couldn’t actually come up with names of other conservatives who are actually journalists. One of their selections, Limbaugh, has already responded to the list by declaring that he shouldn’t be on it. At least he is honest enough in this circumstance to admit that what he does is not journalism.<\/p>\n

    Some of the notable non-journalists on the remainder of the list include raging propagandist Andrew Breitbart (11), serial interrupter Neil Cavuto (14), Coulter clone Laura Ingraham (21), and Marc Morano, a virulent Climate Crisis denier and science skeptic.<\/p>\n

    Overall, judging from this coterie of cranks, I’m surprised that James O’Keefe and Jeff Gannon weren’t given honorable mentions. Perhaps the panel should be consulted again and made aware of some of these glaring omissions. Remember, Joe the Plumber served as a war correspondent for Pajamas Media. How dare they insult these fine conservatives by failing to honor their contributions to the rightist media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tunku Varadarajan, national affairs correspondent for The Daily Beast, has compiled a list of what he and 50 academics, politicians, and journalists, consider to be the top 25 right-wing journalists in America. The most enlightening thing we learn from this list has nothing to do with the ranking of wingnuts in the media. What is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[597,26,33,44,639,723,433,349,69,722,30,71,129,34],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-andrew-breitbart","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-james-okeefe","tag-jeff-gannon","tag-joe-the-plumber","tag-matt-drudge","tag-michelle-malkin","tag-paul-gigot","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-sean-hannity","tag-wall-street-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-p7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5559,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5559","url_meta":{"origin":1557,"position":0},"title":"Glenn Beck Unveils His Latest Paranoid Delusions To Bill O’Reilly","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/15\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If you thought that Glenn Beck was nuts when he had a daily program on Fox News, get a load of him now that he's been unleashed on his own web site that he thinks is a TV network. 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