Lara Logan is Right about Media Bias, but She Overlooks a Greater Threat

As far as Lara Logan’s future goes, she has probably not committed “professional suicide.” She is an experienced, talented, and tough journalist with a compelling biography.If she is worried about finding work, then she can ask her former CBS colleague Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson resigned in 2014 charging CBS with bias. Since then she has done very well writing for Conservative media.

Intellectual Takeout  . . . "Historically, legacy American media like CBS has argued that its reporting is objective.  Thus, while journalists might be overwhelmingly liberal in their personal opinions, they can still suppress that bias in their news stories. Lara Logan says that this is no longer the case:

Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense – or at least the effort – to be objective, today. We’ve become political activists, some could argue propagandists.

"Logan concedes that news outlets like Breitbart and Fox offer a different viewpoint, but they are heavily outnumbered:

There’s one Fox, and there’s many, many, many more organizations on the left. … The problem is the weight of all these organizations on one side of the political spectrum. When you turn on your computer, or you walk past the TV, or you see a newspaper headline in the grocery store If [sic] they’re all saying the same thing, the weight of that convinces you that it’s true. You don’t question it, because everyone is saying it. Unless you seek out Breitbart on your computer, you’re probably not even going to know what the other side is saying.

"The charge of Left-wing media bias is anything but new. Richard Nixon made a career out of attacking it. Logan’s long tenure at CBS, however, makes her remarks both timely and credible. She confirms what most ordinary Americans have suspected: since the election of Donald Trump, the mainstream media have dropped the mask of objectivity."  . . .

Logan did not receive much deference from CBS News after suffering horribly on their behalf.   . . . "We are only a few months removed from such hero treatment being lavished on women who suddenly came forward with implausible and unproven allegations of decades-old misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Those women were universally described as “survivors,” but Lara Logan never is. Criticism of those women – even polite questions about the inconsistencies in their claims – was denounced as “attacking” them, but Lara Logan enjoys no such courtesy. The left long ago decided Logan is a “right-wing shill,” and that political identity trumps everything else about her.