In the old pre Reagan, pre Nixon days conservatives, many of whom like me were essentially drummed out of the GOP as RINOs complained about liberal bias in the media. This brought the term “politically correct” into vogue.
The term is still in vogue with the right although it has run roughshod over the media and even captured a network television station, Fox News, with the help of an Austrailian media mogul who got his start flashing pretty ladies breasts on page 3 of British Sun Newspaper.
As Glenn Greenwald points out in Salon the “liberal” media is pretty much a thing of the past as journalists who don’t tow the conservative line have been falling like RINOs. (Check here and here) So much for Reagan’s “big tent.”
Greenwald asks the rhetorical question:
Does anyone ever suffer career-impeding injuries of this type — the way Nasr and Thomas also just have — for expressing anti-Muslim or anti-Arab views?
The implication is that conservative journalists have free reign.
I do know of one local journalist (talk show host) who got canned for taking the conservative line that Duluth voters should have been able to vote for the Red Plan – Carinda Horton.
It wasn’t the lefties that got her though. It was the Chamber of Commerce.
