A great piece of work by the Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes who shows us how the media chooses to characterize liberals and conservatives.
Once again, agenda driven journalism, exposed for all to see.
Case of Supreme Bias
New Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has been a Justice Department lawyer, a U.S. attorney and a federal judge. Bill Clinton’s first Supreme Court nominee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was a federal judge, too, but she also had been a liberal political activist, most notably as director of the Women’s Rights Project for the American Civil Liberties Union.
But in the first hours after each was nominated, network reporters assured viewers Judge Ginsburg was a “moderate” and a “centrist,” while journalists characterized Judge Alito as a right-wing extremist.
Twelve years ago, those same networks denied Judge Ginsburg’s liberal ideology. A few hours after President Clinton announced Judge Ginsburg’s nomination on June 14, 1993, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell pronounced Judge Ginsburg “a judicial moderate and a pioneer for women’s rights.” The next morning on ABC, “Good Morning America” co-host Joan Lunden asked legal editor Arthur Miller: “We hear words like ‘centrist,’ ‘moderate,’ ‘consensus builder.’ How will she fit into this court?” Mr. Miller, a longtime friend of Judge Ginsburg, wrongly predicted she would be a centrist justice.