A Deep-Seated Bias

In a Vox column that purports to deal with the issue of why the press feels so free to beat up on Trump, Ezra Klein actually does stumble across an interesting idea. Hat tip to RealClearPolitics for the link.

The national press is undoubtedly cosmopolitan in its outlook — it is based in New York and Washington and Los Angeles, and it prizes diversity, tolerance, pluralism. Within newsrooms, these ideas aren’t seen as political opinions but as fundamental values. There is no "other side" worth reporting when it comes to racial equality, no argument that needs to be respected when it comes to religious intolerance or anti-LGBTQ bigotry.

More than Trump’s campaign is conservative, it is anti-cosmopolitan. Trump’s comments on Mexicans, on Muslims, his reaction to the Khans and to Megyn Kelly, his jingoism and instinctual mistrust of immigrants — all of this amounts to an anti-cosmopolitan ideology that really does run him smack into a deep-seated bias in America’s urban newsrooms.

"Cosmopolitan" is not how I'd describe the values of most Americans, but it does describe the media's values. The key quote: "There is no 'other side' worth reporting." Bull droppings, of course there is.