Twenty years ago Bernard Goldberg wrote a book entitled
Bias in which he argued there was no media conspiracy against conservatives, only a collective liberal mindset or groupthink among journalists. Today Goldberg writes at
The Hill that he
no longer holds that charitable view.
What I wrote and spoke about then — mainly about how there was no conspiracy to inject bias into news stories — seems no longer to be true today.
Yes, liberal groupthink is still a problem in America’s newsrooms. But now, in the age of Donald Trump, I believe there actually is a conspiracy.
I particularly like his conclusion:
In the age of Trump, the media no longer try to hide biases; they embrace them. The so-called mainstream media have joined “The Resistance.” And the worst part is that they’re not troubled by it.
Do journalists actually go into dark rooms and conspire to bring down the president? I have no idea if the room is dark or not.
