me and a buddy were discussing the media the other day, and why they are biased, and generally lean left.
how that discussion was relevant here, generally you will find that people who are drawn to writing as a profession, are often pushy about their points of view, and have no interest in hearing the opposite viewpoint. Writing has always been the traditional way to get your fact, er, opinions out into the masses, i.e. thousands/millions of people, with no mechanism for anyone to challenge your point of view in return. Except for maybe one or two letters to the editor that MIGHT get printed about what you wrote. Even if 75% of the population that reads your spooge disagrees with you, since you are the one who was annointed to write for the paper or whatever, your opinion is the CORRECT ONE.
Now with the internet of course and blogging and email you get chances to counter those supposedly expert journalistic opinions and get a bit of a chance at a fair counterpoint. But the bottom line is that the picklehead journalists are all educated to promote the notion of self indulgence to their own thoughts, and to get them printed for many to read and accept as fact. So, they latch on to a notion of something and beat it to death....because there is no alternate viewpoint.
Which is why sites like Cheers and Gears are so great. We can all post our brains out, and we at least get chances to debate with each other. I can post what I THINK is the way something is, but I know half are gonna agree and half are gonna disagree. I don't care who agrees or disagrees, that's the point...I respect that everyone has their opinion and I am not out to try to change what others think and I don't think anyone else here on C/G does. But I am telling ya, professional journalists / editors etc. they could care less what the everyday man thinks. People get into writing as a career, to push agendas. And writing was at least at one time a place where you could foist your opinions unchallenged. Others had no mechanism to respond.
It absolutely must drive all those editorialists crazy at the newpapers these days, the ones who maybe were educated in high universities, baby boomers, high idealisms, and now after all these years of free reign on peoples thoughts, they can be confronted by readers in innumerable ways. It must just drive them nuts to just now find out how wrong they are most of the time.
But after so many years of promoting an agenda in the press it becomes so engrained in people's minds and people cannot reason for themselves. Hence, donestics bad, imports good. Because the hippie editor drove a toyota in college or their vega got some rust.