Thursday, December 12, 2002 :::
I guess I still maintain that the media aren't liberal so much as urbanist; liberalism is certainly part of it, though. New York and L.A. seem to have trouble realizing there's anything in between them (geographically), and most of the media emanate from the coasts; while some journalists certainly came from the Midwest or the South, the media as a whole seem, particularly when discussing religion or guns, to have no idea what middle America is thinking, while they seem vaguely aware that conservatives at least exist. (On that, though, an interesting comment by Dinesh D'Souza, who mentioned that conservatives seem to have a powerful advantage in debates with liberals: the conservatives have heard and prepared for the liberal arguments, while many of the conservative arguments are completely new to the liberals, who haven't seen them on the national news. I do think there are more liberals in Nebraska than there are conservatives in those media outlets that were prominent ten years ago.)
::: posted by dWj at 11:06 AM
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