{"id":2208,"date":"2010-07-20T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T20:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2010-07-20T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T22:02:32","slug":"media-plotting-to-invent-liberal-media-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"Media Plotting To Invent Liberal Media Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new threat is being unraveled by the liberal media about a plot by the liberal media to advance the agenda of the liberal media against the dictates of the liberal media.<\/p>\n

OK, if that didn’t make sense to you it’s because the the whole conspiracy being peddled doesn’t make sense. This breaking news<\/a> first appeared in Tucker Carlson’s right-wing Daily Caller with this headline: Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright<\/i> Not surprisingly, based on the shoddy record of Carlson & Co., there were no documents that said any such thing. What he had were private communications amongst individuals who were members of the JournoList listserv, a community of progressive columnists and academics, not powerful media barons. [The JournoList was recently discontinued<\/a> due to the breach of privacy]<\/i> But even these stolen, candid remarks did not amount to the conspiracy that the Caller alleged with unsupported assertions like this:<\/p>\n

“According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “radical steps”<\/i> were nothing more sinister than like-minded colleagues commiserating amongst themselves about the sorry state of the media. They were mostly people recognized for their opinions, not straight reporting. They were not focusing on Rev. Wright, but on pointing out the “factual inaccuracies”<\/i> of mainstream reporting and the abysmal performance of the anchors in the presidential debates. One comment on the JournoList even explicitly refuted the conclusion of the Caller:<\/p>\n

“This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media]<\/i> kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Serving the people. That’s the sort of depraved plot the Daily Caller is outraged by. The Caller’s embarrassing analysis totally fails to explain why the media, which they regard as hopelessly liberal, would need to take such measures to insert their bias into the reporting that they supposedly control. And how could the stories about Wright have saturated the airwaves as they did when it’s the liberals that control them? Clearly the all-powerful liberal cabal was not able to kill the stories as the Caller charged.<\/p>\n

The real irony here is that the Caller is accusing liberals in the press of something that they themselves are doing with this very item. No sooner was it posted on the Daily Caller’s web site this morning than it suddenly popped up on Fox Nation, the National Review, Hot Air, NewsBusters, WorldNetDaily, Pajamas Media, and the Wall Street Journal. Of course Fox News got in on the act with the execrable Megyn Kelly<\/a> carrying the water of the conservative propaganda machine. She is making a specialty of trumped-up scandals. [Add Glenn Beck to the ConservoList crowd].<\/i><\/p>\n

So the question is, what list is the right-wing circulating that would produce this instantaneous barrage of reporting on a fabricated scandal? As they attempt to stimulate outrage with regard to a fearsome liberal plot, they are instead exposing the clandestine workings of their own confederacy. And somehow the media that is supposed to be tainted by unfettered liberalism is still all too happy to cover this nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new threat is being unraveled by the liberal media about a plot by the liberal media to advance the agenda of the liberal media against the dictates of the liberal media. OK, if that didn’t make sense to you it’s because the the whole conspiracy being peddled doesn’t make sense. 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