Comments on: A Partial Typology Of Political Media

By: Abortion, The Mainstream Media, And The Limits Of Shaming

Abortion, The Mainstream Media, And The Limits Of Shaming — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:29:33 +0000

[...] News or talk radio. The mainstream media like ABC, NBC, CBS, and the New York Times might be called culturally biased news. The vast majority of the journalistic and editorial staff for these outlets have left-of-center [...]

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By: The Media, Social Networks, And Civility » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:42:22 +0000

[...] liberal journalists I’m talking about produce what I’ve called culturally biased news. Unlike Krugman or Ed Schultz, they care more about whether a story is true than whether it advances [...]

By: A Fox Divided Against Itself » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:58:33 +0000

[...] Michael Barone went at Rove. I also think it shows something of the divided nature of Fox News. A while back I wrote about the difference between two kinds of news [...]

By: Notes On The Media, Context, And Collateral Damage » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:49:21 +0000

[...] a video of Romney flattering his marks at a fundraiser. Here is my read on journalists who work at liberal-leaning-but-not-explicitly-liberal news outlets: they want Obama to win very badly, but they also want to feel like they are doing [...]

By: Thoughts On Last Night » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Thoughts On Last Night » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:10:50 +0000

[...] biases in check. And on some level they know it. Whenever I hear someone from a liberal-leaning Culturally Biased News outlet talk about the Republican “deep bench” I sense a kind of unspoken promise to be [...]

By: Pete Spiliakos

Pete Spiliakos — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:15:22 +0000

Corey, I’m going to plead to “partial” here. I’ll think about it, but I don’t know that I’ll be able to come to an answer using the above typology. Good point about Colbert’s show as existing to make its audience feel good about itself. Colbert is also a very talented comic in general. He was one of the very few good things in that horrible Mike Myers movie about “The Love Guru.”

Stewart (from what I’ve seen) tries to keep some distance from Team Blue in a way that Chris Matthews doesn’t anymore. Matthews used to be able to criticize “his” side, but when MSNBC’s business model changed to becoming a televised left-wing version of a second rate right-wing radio station, Matthews went along with public (and sometimes grotesque) enthusiasm. I would guess that the difference between the public Chris Matthews of 2012 and that of say 1999 has more to do with careerism than some intense political love affair with Obama.

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:14:40 +0000

Pete- Where would you put something like The Daily Show and Colbert Report? Although billed as comedies, many young people have their only contact with current events through these shows and stories that go viral online. Stewart is clearly liberal, but does seem to have an independence of mind. His show has evolved from a satire of a news show to an actual news show where jokes are made about the news. Colbert’s show is more of a satire, but of course, it is a satire on the kind of conservative “group therapy” you refer to here.