A staff writer for The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang, authored a piece called, “How Biased Is the Media, Really?” As far as that goes, it seems to be like asking, “How wet is water, really?” but never mind. He was prompted by the recent Gallup poll showing that Americans’ trust in news media continues to fall, which means that American are finally paying attention, and that media bias and news manipulation has become so flagrant that even the average dolt is likely to figure it out.

There have been several examples of MSM agents being moved to admit the obvious of late. I wrote about NPR’s Ira Berliner earlier this year. The former editor said that the radio network’s news judgment was warped by a DEI obsession, and that that NPR is controlled by leftist bubble-vision and lacks viewpoint diversity. Gee, ya think? Naturally, NPR’s staff and management denied the characterization (Water? Wet? What are you talking about?), which all by itself tells you whether the news organization is trustworthy (Hint: No.)

Talking about his experience and conclusions, Kang writes that “The most obvious explanation for this impression [that the news media is biased toward progressive perspectives and the Democratic Party] is that the press corps is mostly made up of liberals.At prestige outlets—many of which do don the armor of impartiality—the imbalance skews a lot further to the left than what many outsiders might imagine.”

Not THIS outsider. More from the article:

• “The basic ideological homogeneity of the press corps isn’t some secret that’s tightly guarded by journalists or even the people who run news organizations. In a 2023 interview in this magazine, A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, said, ‘Almost everyone who works at the New York Times lives in the big city and graduated from college. That alone makes our staff unrepresentative. It means that we’re going to under-index in gun ownership, under-index in church attendance.’”
• As Sulzberger intimated, it’s difficult to believe that a press corps mostly made up of one type of person who votes one type of way would not be influenced by both their prior beliefs and their gaps in knowledge…And, indeed, the Times—who bears the brunt of media criticism across all political spectrums—has, nor do they have a columnist or editorial writer who openly supports Trump. The situation is largely the same at the big network-news shows and most newspapers. So, yes, there is a liberal bias to the news.”
• He also claimed that he has never met a single Trump supporter among his colleagues.

kFor me, the smoking gun is buried in Sulzberger’s quote. He believes, as most of these smug, arrogant, closed minded, not-half-as-smart-as-they-think they-are hacks do, that they are better educated and more sophisticated than the hoi polloi, so naturally they have embraced the “right” world view. Everyone else is too dim, rustic, parochial and ignorant to know what’s good for them, so the real mission of journalists isn’t to inform the public, but to save them from themselves by giving their brains a good scrub.