Regarding The Vast, Left-Wing Hypocrisy

Many moons ago I earned a degree in journalism from a top-ranked college at a top-tier university. However, it could be easily argued that, throughout my college years, equal portions of my intellectual focus were dedicated to academics and to "fraternal hijinks." Disinterested, I spurned participation in the groups my counselors and professors suggested I join. It must have been my innate aversion to indoctrination that kept me distant from my most of my classmates. I shunned writing for the school newspaper because I just didn't like the people who ran it...their ideologies dictated content. Even conversing with them seemed alien to me. I went into journalism to learn how to write, not to become part of a cult. It wasn't until a few years later that I realized the reason why I never really "cliqued" with my classmates and professors was because I was innately disinclined to piddle around with burgeoning liberals and their gurus.

During my entire college experience, I had courses taught by exactly two professors that I can, in retrospect, identify as having been "conservative." Neither was in the college of journalism. My youth and inexperience made it hard for me to put words to the reasons behind my distaste for the mere thought of working in a newsroom; I did not yet have a deep enough grasp of the political spectrum to see that I just didn't want to be immersed in messianic liberalism. As I got older, it became clear that a lot of the opinion guised and taught as "method" in many of my prerequisite classes was in opposition to the things that my family had taught me about what it means to be a good American. The prevailing intent I was expected to buy into and regurgitate held within it considerable contempt for the dreams of our founding fathers.

Years later, I figured out a simple test to discern the prevalent intentions of any group of professionals: simply examine the sort of continuing education their professional associations offer or mandate. For instance, physicians must keep their skills current by attending continuing medical education courses (CME) in their particular specialty area. Lawyers have to keep up with changes in law and precedent through continuing legal education (CLE) seminars, primarily in their main field of legal interest. Computer professionals train constantly for certification tests to keep up with new software and hardware specifications based up their specific technological interests and needs. In most professional fields, there are wide varieties of content options by which practitioners can update and hone their skills through continuing education.

Such a smorgasbord approach to ongoing learning appears to be nonexistent in America's newsrooms. The primary means by which mainstream media news people keep their skills current is through various forms of diversity indoctrination. Attending frequent, company-sponsored "diversity sensitivity meetings" is mandated and participation in functions like the American Society Of Newspaper Editors' (ASNE) "Time out for diversity and accuracy week" is celebrated on editorial pages. If other fields used the same approach to continuing education, this world would be ruled by chaos. Doctors would make a primary diagnosis of every symptom as being an indicative variant of the same condition. Lawyers would approach each challenge with a predisposition that would never place primacy upon the needs and interests of each individual client. Technical professionals would be incapable of making disparate systems communicate and Al Gore's Internet would not exist.

In the mainstream media, "continuing education" is more akin to "continuing indoctrination" than in any other profession to which I have been exposed. Stepford newspeople across America have a primary focus on fomenting multiculturalism, even those whose work affects communities that overwhelmingly wish to retain their homogenous American culture and character.

Naturally, reporting about "diversity" must never stray into exposing readers and viewers to stories about the primary culture, values, mores and standards that made this nation great, even though they are still held dear by the vast majority of Americans. Traditional values are the very things that diversity theory is used to "cure." You can bet the farm that mainstream media professionals would whine like stuck pigs if they had to partake in something called a "Time out for traditional American Values Week." In the vast majority of this nation's newsrooms, stories about the values of our founders that have persisted for more than 200 years are prohibited because they don't count as part of "diversity." Why is it not reasonable — even prudent — to conclude that the editors and producers who decide what gets published or gets aired in our mainstream media are nothing but board of directors members in a cult of America-hating hypocrites?

Thanks to talk radio, Fox News and the Internet, more people are being enabled to put a name to the culturally-malignant media agenda. That scares the hell out of editors, publishers and other liberal purveyors of "news." It is about time. This section is dedicated to the new media champions who shoot straight and don't subscribe to the same "cult" that has for too long infected our nation's mainstream newsrooms and editorial boards. This page kicks off the section with links to a few groups that take the time to point out the the hypocrisy, lies and bias prevalent in the mainstream press. They deserve our thanks!

—Katie's Dad

Hail to the Media Watchdogs! Accuracy In Media "AIM publishes a twice-monthly newsletter, broadcasts a daily radio commentary, promotes a speaker's bureau and syndicates a weekly newspaper column--all geared to setting the record straight on important stories that the media have botched, bungled or ignored. We also attend the annual shareholders' meetings of large media organizations and encourage our members to bombard newsrooms with postcards and letters about biased and inaccurate news coverage." Media Research Center "The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene."