Editor and Publisher discusses media bias

Editor and Publisher published an article today that discusses liberal bias in the media. (Interesting, isn't it, that the media is just now "discovering" this?) The article is interesting for a number of reasons, but this quote almost made me fall out of my chair laughing.

Journalism veterans interviewed by E&P disagree about why an ideological schism exists. Some say fewer conservatives enter journalism because the profession offers modest financial rewards and promotes aggressive questioning of the establishment. As Tribune Media Services columnist Cal Thomas put it, "It's just not the kind of thing conservatives do." But others contend that conservatives feel unwelcome in today's newsrooms because they contradict the "group think," to quote one editor.

This is hilarious. According to "journalism veterans" conservatives don't enter the media because it doesn't pay well: (aren't we so proud of those poor, self-sacrificing liberals like, oh, Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Katie Kouric, et. al, who, though they can barely make ends meet, sacrifice for us so we can get the news?) and because it requires questioning authority (which, of course, no self-respecting conversative could ever bring themselves to do, oh, like say, criticize the President?

The self-righteous sanctimony almost had me barfing when - I read Cal Thomas' response - "It's just not the kind of thing conservatives do." - Like Bill Buckley, for example? Yeah, Bill never created the premier conservative magazine, National Review, because, well, as Cal says, that's "just not the sort of things conservatives do". That magazine is, well, just a figment of all our imaginations, right Cal? This is so patently absurd on its face that it made me break up in laughter.

You can't make this stuff up. It takes liberal journalists, enscounced in their safe little fantasy worlds, where no one disagrees with their positions because, well, how could they, to come up with these absurdities and say them with a completely straight and sincere face.

Hat tip to Ranting Profs.