Why is it more writers go from liberal publications to mainstream journalism? This is why.
Taking Goldberg’s unsupported contention at face value, there’s a simple answer. Journalists who pay their dues at staunchly liberal mags practice exactly that: journalism. Their politics, like the editorial policy, may be liberal, but they nonetheless aim for the basic ideals of accuracy, intellectual honesty, skepticism, and fairness to which journalists aspire. When they move on from those magazines, newspaper editors feel confident that they’re hiring intelligent, fair-minded reporters as opposed to shrill, knee-jerk dogmatists.
here is an alternative theory:
The MSM won’t hire qualified conservative reporters. It is sort of like a form of institutionalized racism. The conservatives don’t “think like us”.
Oooh! I get to beat dugger, Frank, et al to the punch!
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With that out of the way, it’s also worth noting that the other reason wingnut columnists have a harder time getting stints alongside actual journalists is because so many of them get their jobs only because of wingnut welfare: e.g, Jonah Goldberg’s sinecure at National Review because his folks are Lucianne and Bernard Goldberg, and similary John Podhoretz courtesy of dad Norm.
That guy’s entry is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read.
I would swear it was satire.
Qualified conservative reporters. That is like “military intelligence”, no?
Jay C: content free “analysis” as usual.
scratch: I don’t think the mainstream media has a conservative bias, more than a bias towards stupidity (some could argue they’re the same thing), but the MSM allows itself to be pushed around and in our current environment that leads to pro-GOP storylines dominating – not a product of the presidency because the same happened during the Clinton years.
damn good point scratch.
Not a damn good answer though Oliver. Doesn’t pass the common sense test.
So it’s these journalists from the liberal publications who go on to give the mainstream media its right-wing bias? Why do these upstanding, intellectually honest, liberal reporters carry water for this dishonest administration? Why won’t these straight shooters ask the hard questions of this President?
Scratch, your analysis assumes the MSM is full of TNR or The Nation Alum; it’s not, those are very small publications. For every Michael Kinsley, there are a hundred journalists at the Times or WaPo who put got knocked around in Spokane or Tulsa or wherever the fuck. Goldberg, as is his wont, has simply made an intellectually lazy argument. Quelle surprise.
Rheinhard: Who’s Dan Rather?
If a conservative reporter is an excellent reporter, as opposed to a glorified opinionist, then I don’t see why any mainstream paper wouldn’t hire them.
The reason writers for conservative publications don’t go on to be “mainstream” reporters is pretty simple: most conservative publications don’t do reporting. TNR does a lot of reporting and field pieces — and while it’s not exactly a “liberal” publication (there’s a reason why the Reagan administration used to order dozens of copies of TNR) — it is a good breeding ground for reporters, as are some other, more liberal publications that do the same.
The conservative journals don’t do much reporting. The American Spectator did a few of those anti-Clinton pieces, but they had, to put it mildly, an accuracy problem. National Review does an occasional piece of reportage, but it’s mostly opinion journalism, and most of the other big conservative magazines are all opinion journalism. The only conservative magazine that really makes TNR-style reporting a big part of its publications is The Weekly Standard.
So why doesn’t somebody go from writing for National Review to reporting for the New York Times? Because writing for National Review is mostly about expressing opinions; it’s a legitimate form of journalism but has nothing to do with reporting.
The reason writers for conservative publications don t go on to be mainstream reporters is pretty simple, allright: What left wing MSM paper would hire them?
How many “conservative” reporters work for the
LAT
NYT
WaPo
??
I don t see why any mainstream paper wouldn t hire them.
Me, neither. So why don’t they?
Frank_D, how do you know they don’t? And even assuming that most reporters are Democrats, some are not — and some of the ones who are Republicans may be writing some of the evil anti-Bush stories that bedevil the MSM, since any objective reporter would sometimes have to acknowledge that the facts themselves are anti-Bush. (Just like reporters who voted for Carter or Clinton nonetheless wrote vicious stories about them: getting the story was more important than supporting their man.)
Because we know, as Dr. P said, that 70% of journalists (I thought it was more) declared themselves to be Democrats.
I seem to recall that something like 90% have voted Democratic for some time now.
So some of that 30% must be independents or liars.
Wait, isn’t a good reporter supposed to be objective? Conservative/Liberal should not be an issue.
Well, it shouldn’t….
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