bobquasit | Smackdown: The Liberal Press

Couldn't help writing another response to a "liberal press" idiot recently:

[idiot] has presented an article of his (or her) faith:

The Press Is Leftist.

Of course, if you're not entirely disconnected from reality you're aware that this isn't true. The owners of the overwhelming majority of the mainstream press fall into one of two categories:

1. Arch-conservative Republican billionaires like Rupert Murdoch or close Bush family friend and cult-leader the "Reverend" Sun Myung Moon, or

2. Enormous multi-billion-dollar media corporations which are so closely intertwined with the US government as to be virtually a PART of the government.

Any sane person would not be able to keep a straight face while saying that either of these groups of media owners are wild-eyed socialists. They would know that these groups are interested in preserving their own profits first and foremost - the status quo. And that the best way to do that has traditionally been seen as supporting the Republican Party.

(Although ironically enough the collapse of the credit and housing bubbles, along with the damage caused by massive corruption in the financial world, has proved that responsible government regulation DOES have value in the marketplace.)

But to [idiot], all the words above are just the text equivalent of the voice of the teacher in a Charlie Brown special: "Bwaa bwaa, bwaa bwaa-bwaa bwaa". The facts don't matter. Reality doesn't matter. All that matters is that [idiot] has been told by right-wing talk show hosts and apparatchiks that The Press Is Liberal. And nothing and no one can tell [idiot] differently. S/he's simply too well indoctrinated.

Blind obedience and faith in the Party Line is the only thing imaginable to [idiot] now. Any attempt to convince her or him otherwise is simply a waste of time and effort. It's rather sad, if you think about it.