Have you ever seen a story where something someone said twenty years ago is used against them politically? If you pay attention to the news at all, the answer to that question has to be YES. All kinds of nominees for judicial or executive positions in the government are regularly scrutinized with regard to their past statements. We've all seen some person questioned because he or she wrote a sentence or two in an undergraduate paper while in college that by today's standards is considered not politically correct. The same is true of reporters and other public figures. All manner of people have had problems due to things they said in the past (whether or not the problems were deserved.)
Now, things have supposedly changed depending on the target. Recently, an editor of the New York Times was exposed for having sent some very anti-Semitic messages a few years ago. The Times claimed to be horrified not at the messages, but rather at the thought that anyone would look into the blatant bigoted bias of its editors and reporters. A new group is actually being formed to systematically look into the backgrounds of the reporters and editors at mainstream media outlets in order to expose bigotry, sexism, racism or the like demonstrated by those folks. The result is a meltdown by the powers that be in the mainstream media. They're fine with exposing others, but if someone wants to expose them, it's an attack on the First Amendment.
I wonder if these people have ever looked at Media Matters. That's a site that exists just to attack any conservative in media. They seem to have no limits on the matters they "investigate". Why should a mirror image site investigating liberals/progressives in media be improper if Media Matters is fine?
I should be used to the total hypocrisy of the mainstream media. In this case, however, their conduct is so far beyond ordinary hypocrisy that I am still shocked by it.
Now, things have supposedly changed depending on the target. Recently, an editor of the New York Times was exposed for having sent some very anti-Semitic messages a few years ago. The Times claimed to be horrified not at the messages, but rather at the thought that anyone would look into the blatant bigoted bias of its editors and reporters. A new group is actually being formed to systematically look into the backgrounds of the reporters and editors at mainstream media outlets in order to expose bigotry, sexism, racism or the like demonstrated by those folks. The result is a meltdown by the powers that be in the mainstream media. They're fine with exposing others, but if someone wants to expose them, it's an attack on the First Amendment.
I wonder if these people have ever looked at Media Matters. That's a site that exists just to attack any conservative in media. They seem to have no limits on the matters they "investigate". Why should a mirror image site investigating liberals/progressives in media be improper if Media Matters is fine?
I should be used to the total hypocrisy of the mainstream media. In this case, however, their conduct is so far beyond ordinary hypocrisy that I am still shocked by it.
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