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Journalists tend to have their own cultural biases--although more on political topics than technical ones. You're on to more than you give yourself credit for
by mdpye 13y ago
Journalists tend to have their own cultural biases--although more on political topics than technical ones.
You're on to more than you give yourself credit for there. Much modern journalism is an integral part of the political system, and many papers fit into your $PROPRIETARY_COMPANY variable quite neatly.
There is some separation between party and paper, but I think as far as politics goes, we're pretty close to the hypothetical situation you describe.
- ghaff 13y agoThis probably goes further back in time than many on this site remember but once upon a time Newsweek and Time were pretty much the two weekly news mags. (US News and World Report but that had a somewhat different focus.) People were often surprised when Time and Newsweek had the same cover story even when it wasn't the current big news story--but this really reflected that the reporters and editors went to the same schools and worked in the same environment so really thought the same in a lot of respects. I was an engineering major but I was involved with newspapers in various respects through school and there was definitely a certain "perspective" with the mainstream publications.