Leland Gourley In Friday: The Liberal Media
By J. Leland Gourley, Editor, Friday ~ The picture of U. S. journalism in the first decade of this century: The media industry is all abuzz about News Corp, headed by media giant, Rupert Murdock, and his purchase of The Wall Street Journal company. Do not fear! For the past one or two decades, the elite media conglomerates have dominated the news business. They have been moving farther and farther to the left, editorially, each year.
There are three opinion-leader groups that have been main drivers of liberal advocacy. They are: ONE--Major news media outlets (Big City dailies in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, etc.) and the news departments of the big 3 TV networks. TWO--Academia’s tenured faculty members. THREE--Union bosses of Big Labor.
John Morton of the American Journalism Review is worried about Murdock owning The Journal, because he “has long had reputation for meddling with the news coverage of his properties, the better to advance his conservative views and business interests.”
John has his audacity complaining about advocacy journalism, which itself has been flooding America from the left all these years.The only prominent voice for conservatives for years was Rush Limbaugh.
Terry Clark, Communications school head at UCO was bent out of shape about maybe having a Bill O’Reilly column on the front page of The Journal.
Now, things are changing. The public, fed up with warped news, started gravitating to talk radio with conservative commentators.
Then Mr. Murdock came along with Fox News. The pinko “intelligency” makes fun of Fox’s slogan of “fair and balanced.” But they keep giving it anyway.
The liberals are going nuts about the success of Fox News, which now has more viewers than CNN and all the other Cable News networks combined. And Bill O’Reilly has more viewers than any other TV news personality.
Murdock is an outstanding news executive. He is a business man who believes in making a profit. He knows the public wants news not tainted by the political agenda of the lefties. He owns the biggest newspaper in London, The Times, and the most popular news magazine in Washington, The Weekly Standard.
Maybe unslanted news will catch on with the elites.
There are three opinion-leader groups that have been main drivers of liberal advocacy. They are: ONE--Major news media outlets (Big City dailies in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, etc.) and the news departments of the big 3 TV networks. TWO--Academia’s tenured faculty members. THREE--Union bosses of Big Labor.
John Morton of the American Journalism Review is worried about Murdock owning The Journal, because he “has long had reputation for meddling with the news coverage of his properties, the better to advance his conservative views and business interests.”
John has his audacity complaining about advocacy journalism, which itself has been flooding America from the left all these years.The only prominent voice for conservatives for years was Rush Limbaugh.
Terry Clark, Communications school head at UCO was bent out of shape about maybe having a Bill O’Reilly column on the front page of The Journal.
Now, things are changing. The public, fed up with warped news, started gravitating to talk radio with conservative commentators.
Then Mr. Murdock came along with Fox News. The pinko “intelligency” makes fun of Fox’s slogan of “fair and balanced.” But they keep giving it anyway.
The liberals are going nuts about the success of Fox News, which now has more viewers than CNN and all the other Cable News networks combined. And Bill O’Reilly has more viewers than any other TV news personality.
Murdock is an outstanding news executive. He is a business man who believes in making a profit. He knows the public wants news not tainted by the political agenda of the lefties. He owns the biggest newspaper in London, The Times, and the most popular news magazine in Washington, The Weekly Standard.
Maybe unslanted news will catch on with the elites.
Labels: J. Leland Gourley, Liberal Media
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