February 28, 2008

Mark Halperin - Still Not Part of the "Liberal Media"

Let's see, he's said Drudge rules his world, earlier this week he was encouraging (or at least legitimizing) the McCain campaign to attack Obama's wife, and to institute a racist attack against the Obama campaign, and today he's calling Bob Dole an "all-around good guy". Yet more evidence that Big Media (Halperin was for years the political director at ABC and is now Time's pooh-bah of election coverage) isn't actually reliably liberal. Who knew?

Posted by armand at February 28, 2008 10:37 AM | TrackBack | Posted to


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Wow, you found someone in elite mass media who has made non-liberal noises recently. How does that "prove" that no cultural expectation of general conformity to liberal viewpoints and values exists in said elite US media? Why do major US papers (the WSJ excepted) feel the need to have designated conservative columnists on their editorial pages, then?

Posted by: jacflash at February 28, 2008 02:01 PM | PERMALINK

That certain outlets' op-ed pages skew liberal does not connote anything pro- or con- for their coverage generally. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, the Tribune-Review, Richard Mellon Scaife's pet newspaper, is somewhere right of David Duke on its editorial page, but its news pages don't diverge material from the city's more leftward Post-Gazette except, arguably, in quality. People in the media out here comment that RMS largely is as hands-off with respect to the newsroom as he is heavy-handed with regard to the Editorial Board, etc.

Posted by: moon at February 29, 2008 10:58 AM | PERMALINK
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