Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Opinion

Robert Schlesinger

Liberal Hollywood Conspiracy Confirmed--Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Run It

April 02, 2009 01:45 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

Reader Comments

Bias

Luther and Jeff...It's beyond intuitive....Liberalizm is a Mental Disorder....isn't there a book out there on this?

Bullseye!

Luther of IL nailed it.

Bias

I am trying to analyze why conservatives easily recognize both liberal and conservative bias, but liberals are unable to recognize liberal bias in the mainstream media.

My first tentative theory is that for liberals political correctness has the weight of fact, and non-PC ideas are taboo, and therefore axiomatically false.

For example, if an anchor like Charlie Gibson has an expose on an employer paying women less than men for the same job, the liberal viewer starts with a heartfelt PC conviction that women are worth as much as men in the workplace. This is PC dogma, which has the weight of fact to him.

If Fox has a sympathetic story on a businessman forced to pay inferior female workers the same as men, then this is taboo under PC and must therefore appear false and biased to the liberal viewer.

I agree with Richard

The messages being promoted by the Gates are neither conservative nor liberal, rendering this blog worthless - other than giving us a reason to complain and feel superior.

Totally Pointless

It seems you had nothing to write about. Please next time if you have nothing to say THEN SAY NOTHING. USNEWS didn't give you this opportunity to blog so that you can just come and spew nonsense for people to read. Please give us news next time or at least something worth reading!

"But there's something creepy", he says

WHAT?

What is "creepy" about the Gates Foundation buying some SENSE into entertainment venues that are otherwise rather mindless?

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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