{"id":523,"date":"2004-09-09T05:24:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:46","slug":"liberal_or_illiberal_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Liberal – or Illiberal Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve argued with various friends on the issue of the liberal media; on one hand, the national media does – obviously and blatantly – embody the values of the upper-middle-class, urban people who staff it; but on the other it has a certain – attraction<\/i> – to the current order that makes it more a voice of the establishment (which happens to be liberal) than one attached to liberal principles.<\/p>\n

It’s hot enough in Los Angeles this week that random strangers are bursting into flame as they walk along the sidewalks, which makes motorcycling unattractive, and riding in air-conditioned minivans quite attractive to me (TG sniffs that I’m a wimp). So I drove to a lunch meeting and listened to KPCC, the local non-KCRW progressive Pacifica station as I headed down the 405.They were rebroadcasting an interview with Michael Kinsley, now the opinion & editorial editor of the Los Angeles Times; he gave a Q & A with Larry Mantle as a part of the Zocalo<\/a> series at the LA Central Library (wonder if Patterico went…).<\/p>\n

Listen to the whole thing<\/a> (RealPlayer).<\/p>\n

But here’s a telling quote (go to 21:32):<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we should subsidize small businesses. Small businesses are owned by people who are generally wealthier than the people who own big businesses. Big businesses are owned by pension funds for working people, by and large.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not only is he profoundly wrong on the facts (I’ll go dig around a bit), and worse, wrong in terms of where jobs and innovation are created, but his mad love for the status quo just shines though that phrase.<\/p>\n

And as a basis for criticism of the Democratic Party – which is accused of being in thrall to certain groups in Big Business that’s willing to buy off blocks of votes of ‘working people’, and so being an unholy alliance between the media companies and poverty pimps – it just shines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve argued with various friends on the issue of the liberal media; on one hand, the national media does – obviously and blatantly – embody the values of the upper-middle-class, urban people who staff it; but on the other it has a certain – attraction – to the current order that makes it more a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}