The existence of the JournoList should surprise no one.
I don’t know everybody on the list, but many of the names are easy to recognize and these are all the usual suspects. “JournoLists” combining with a common goal, to spread a leftist agenda.
That Paul Krugman agrees with Joe Klein, who agrees with JeffreyToobin, who agrees with David Brock should shock no one.
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As a journalist I would never in a million years think to plan, organize, compile and collate stories among those whom I see as my competition. I want to beat them on stories, I want to break stories they don’t have and I want to report on angles they had never thought of. I like to do that here on Big Journalism I can read the other articles and admire the work I see and always try to come up with something better. I believe in competition. I love competition.
Besides, I might have a tough time finding a couple dozen conservatives in the media to collude with, much less the 400 or willing mainly Upper West Side white males who were part of the JournoList. I’ve have seen a hundred times more diversity at a Tea Party rally.
Certainly, the JournoList explains why so often the LAMBS in the old media come up with many of the same thoughts, and sometimes even the same words in their stories (remember when Dick Cheney provided the “gravitas” that George Bush supposedly did not have? 1-2-3- all together now, “gravitas”–is the word of the day.)
If anybody thinks it’s just a coincidence that virtually every name on the JournoList is left-wing and that each of the publications are left-wing and there just so happens to be a Democrat strategist on the list, and numerous left-wing professors on the list, then you are gullible enough to vote for Barack Obama. As it has been said, then I assume you believe a bunch of monkeys on keyboards given enough time could write Hamlet as well.
Real journalists will talk among themselves about ideas and bounce stories off colleagues they can trust, but to form a club with a clear political agenda is something mobsters would be proud of. As General George S. Patton said, “If everybody’s thinking alike then somebody is not thinking.” There’s a lot of people here not thinking.
I always enjoyed being in a news room where I was outnumbered, always more liberals than conservatives. It forced me to defend my ideals and develop counter-arguments. I’m not a contentious person, but will always defend what I believe.
By the way, as a new reporter/anchor I took pride in knowing that viewers had to search long and hard to figure how where I stood politically. I never hid political beliefs in the newsroom, but as far as viewers go, I got praise and complaints equally from both sides. There were rare moments where I went off script and defended our military or the Constitution, but if that becomes partisan to do so, then call me partisan and examine where you stand on those core issues.
This collaboration will be discounted by each of those on the list. They will ignore, deflect and discount their participation in this cabal. The only hope of the JournoListas is that their uninformed viewers/listeners/readers don’t find out, or don’t care, that they plot their agenda driven dribble with other media to work as copy machines for Democrats. They are media people who want always to be seen and heard, but on this issue, blindness is golden.