Media Bias -- NY Times and East Coast Elite Media

When we started to look for information about the NY Times appointing a new editor since they had missed the ACORN and Jones stories, we discovered plenty of cover for the Times on the left including the Politico article that took shots at Glenn Beck. We ended up at Newsbusters once again -- when you want to find the truth about what is happening in journalism at the major print or broadcast outlets, you can always count on them to have the facts.

We would also like to point out that the NY Times and other east coast elite media missed or downplayed one of the biggest stories of the year -- the 9/12 march on DC. As you can see in the picture below, people turned out for as far as the eye could see so why did the elite media downplay the event and the number of people involved? Better yet why did Obama skip town that day?

Compare the 9/12 march where no trash was left to clean up with the anarchists in Pittsburg destroying property. You would think at least one major media outlet besides Fox News and the Washington Times would be interested.

Public Editor Admits NY Times Slow on ACORN -- Not First Conservative Media Story NYT's Ignored
By Clay Waters (Bio Archive)September 28, 2009 - 11:08 ET

New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt's latest column tackles the ACORN scandal -- or as Times readers know it: "What ACORN scandal?"

In "Tuning In Too Late," Hoyt criticized the Times for its lack of coverage of the juicy ACORN imbroglio, an omission that has prodded the paper into creating a new semi-position. It's assigned an editor to monitor opinion media and catch stories like this earlier (apparently not a single television at Times headquarters is tuned to Fox News, where they could have caught it quite easily.)

Hoyt summarized the video sting in which ACORN workers at several branches across the country were captured giving advice on child sex trafficking and tax evasion to a gaudy pimp and a hot-pants prostitute (actually conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles). The tapes, whose gradual release were masterfully mediated by Andrew Brietbart at his new website BigGovernment.com, resulted in ACORN being cut off from federal funding and losing its ties to the Census Bureau and IRS. Yet the Times took little interest in the scandal and the consequences:

But for days, as more videos were posted and government authorities rushed to distance themselves from Acorn, The Times stood still. Its slow reflexes -- closely following its slow response to a controversy that forced the resignation of Van Jones, a White House adviser -- suggested that it has trouble dealing with stories arising from the polemical world of talk radio, cable television and partisan blogs.

Some stories, lacking facts, never catch fire. But others do, and a newspaper like The Times needs to be alert to them or wind up looking clueless or, worse, partisan itself.

This is quite misleading. The Times already monitors opinion media for story tips. It's just that they only monitor the left side of the blogosphere. Lachlan Markay provided some stark examples at NewsBusters on Sunday:

The Times consistently cites liberal blogs far more than ones on the right, undermining the claim that they missed these two stories because they don't monitor online media. A Nexis search reveals 477 combined mentions of five of the left's top blogs: Huffington Post, Think Progress, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, and Media Matters.

But a search for five of the right's top blogs, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, NewsBusters, RedState, and TownHall turns up only 18 combined mentions from the Times.

(Excerpt) See Newsbusters for Full Article

Times is even missing the story of ACORN corruption including voter fraud by concentrating on prostitution. Is it on purpose or are they that naive to believe the heads of ACORN? If they believe ACORN, then they are really out of touch which does not shock us.

Compare those numbers to get a clear picture of the bias at the NY Times: 477 combined mentions of five of the left's top blogs versus 18 combined mentions from the right's top blogs. If my math is correct that is 459 more times that the liberal blogs are quoted and yet the NY Times doesn't want us to think of them as being biased? Think a better question would be is to ask them when they were not biased in favor of liberals? That is the problem with today's liberal Democrats including their friends in media as they totally miss the fact they are out of touch with much of America. They live inside their little cacoon of liberals and think all Americans have to think like them.

The vast majority of America is center right and are getting upset at what we see is a move to the far left which leaves a lot of Democrats asking what happened to their Party. Do we see anything about that by the Elite Media. Not on your life -- they will continue to follow Obama, Reid, and Pelosi over the cliff and then wonder why they lost readers and/or viewers. Middle America is just some place to ignore as they have tagged us for years as flyover country.