New York Times media columnist David Carr thinks its shocking that some smart people don’t want to read his paper or the Washington Post. He was shocked to learn in a New York magazine interview that Justice Antonin Scalia a man who is widely acknowledged, even in the saner precincts of the left, to be an intellectual giant, won’t read either of them and that his daily sources for news are limited to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times and conservative talk radio. Carr presents this as evidence that denizens of the right wing echo chamber are not just “a bunch of narrow-minded, politically obsessed characters who send mass e-mails from their mother’s basement.”..
I would have to agree with Justice Scalia. The WSJ is less partisan than the NYT. Plus have you ever read the New York Times? It is full of typos and errors. Even the local Denver Post has much fewer errors.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I don't find it surprising regarding Scalia if you want to be well rounded and well informed. I find the liberal media to be mostly fluff and it often comes short of addressing the harder issues. That's not to say that I watch Fox all the time. I used to watch Megan Kelly until she went on maternity leave. Now that she is back I might watch Fox again.
Its corporate owned and operated..Owned by corporations, (even msnbc) that are heavily invested in war production...Are you kidding with this "liberal media" media bullshit? I don't think anybody with any kind of knowledge thinks its a "liberal media"..
Um, even small companies are corporations. Even the BBC and NPR are corporations.
I think the media which depends on advertizing isn't as likely to go after large corporations as they used to do. But I think they do support increased spending on the poor and for schools. Do they support wars for military contractors? I don't think so. I think they support wars because wars keep people watching and buying newspapers. It is all about the ratings. Even Hearst at the beginning of the century realized that and demanded we go to war with Spain.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
