Confessions from the liberal media elite

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Confessions from the liberal media elite

As a card-carrying member of the leftist media near-elite — alas, I’m not nearly rich or famous enough to be regarded as a 100% elitist — it pains me to see my brethren sinking like the sun in the west. But we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

We’ve been out of touch with what people on the streets are thinking. The problem is twofold. We didn’t care to listen to them, and by the time we heard them we had missed the opportunity to break the story and inform the public. We were followers, not leaders.

The tea party movement was another example of the mainstream media’s failings. Liberals, laughing them off as extremists, dismissed the tea party because they didn’t agree with their politics. Big mistake.

As a result of their biases, reporters didn’t understand that the tea party was a compelling story because the organization’s members represented a large number of disenfranchised voters. That fact alone qualifies the tea party as something worth chronicling in a serious way.

 

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There's no doubt it, both OWS and Tea Party have had issues from both sides. The Republican party did it's best to own the Tea Party and the Democrat party is doing it's best to own OWS. But neither are really extensions of either party and I would prefer to see the Tea Party and OWS movements work together against the establishment.