1/13/2005 11:37:34 AM|||Sarah|||

Opinion Journal's "Best of the Web" today posts a question and answer between Joe Scarborough and Hugh Downs that went as follows:

Scarborough: Is there a liberal bias in the media or is the bias towards getting the story first and getting the highest ratings, therefore, making the most money?

Downs: Well, I think the latter, by far. And, of course, when the word liberal came to be a pejorative word, you began to wonder, you have to say that the press doesn't want to be thought of as merely liberal.

But people tend to be more liberated in their thought when they are closer to events and know a little more about what the background of what's happening. So, I suppose, in that respect, there is a liberal, if you want to call it a bias. The press is a little more in touch with what's happening.

Way to dispel the idea that the members of mainstream media are arrogant! Mr. Downs and his fellow "journalists" are more in touch with reality than the rest of us. Very amusing.

|||110563815492314418|||Ah, the Arrogance