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    Media Bias and the Totalitarian Left

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    Media Bias and the Totalitarian Left By J. Wesley Visions of Media Bias: Right and Left Bill in Portland is crowing about upcoming liberal films or plays over at the Daily Kos. These include: Standard Operating Procedure - a documentary on Abu Ghraib; War, Inc. - a John Cusack satire on Iraq; Recount - an HBO original on the “stolen” 2000 election in Florida; Thurgood - a hagiographical Broadway play on Thurgood Marshall; We Were This Close - Michael Moore’s latest offering offal; and W - Oliver Stone’s cinematic attack on George Bush. Having published this long list, Bill in Portland is likely to write a angry diatribe on the right-wing bias of the media in the next few days, and do so without irony. When he does, it will be one of a million such pieces over the past five years. Bizarrely, it is an article of faith in the American Left that the media is biased against them. One must assume that the Democratic Netroots don’t watch the Academy Awards or read newspapers, are unaware of the career track which flows naturally from Democratic presidential administrations to major press outlets, and have no clue about the curricula taught at today’s journalism schools. So their view of reality is warped, I get that. But what is truly telling is their REACTION to this perceived bias. Both conservatives and liberals think the media is biased against them. Conservative politicians recognize this, but still attend debates moderated by Chris Matthews, Tim Russert and their sort. Conservatives also work to build up alternative media sources such as Fox News or talk radio. The Left, meanwhile, remains true to its totalitarian impulses. Democratic politicians refuse to debate on a network which they disagree with, and their activists demand an absolute ban on Fox News by their politicians, on pain of punishment. More significantly, Democrats are dying for a chance to reimpose the fairness doctrine and silence conservative talk radio. It’s ironic that an ideological group which had its roots in the Free Speech Movement is now the advocate campus speech codes, “hate speech” bans, and of silencing dissent through the blunt power of the state. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.