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It’s unfortunate that most Americans still have no idea who Lara Logan is. She is brave. She is usually accurate. She isn’t impressed by the leftist rhetoric in the journalistic echo chamber in which she’s operated most of her adult life. All three of these things makes her an enigma in the world of mainstream media.
Her message yesterday during the Mike Drop Podcast was one the world needs to hear. Whether you want to listen to three and a half hours of curse-laden podcasting or if you just want to know the gist is up to you, but don’t dismiss the message outright. This is too important.
What Logan said is what a good number of conservative Americans have known for a long time: mainstream media leans very much to the left. They’ve been left-leaning for at least three decades, but today’s variation of “objective truth” is far from objective and rarely the truth. As Logan noted, the newsrooms of America’s journalistic outlets are not made up of the unbiased truth-tellers they’d like us to believe they are. Instead, they’re made up of political activists with the vast majority of them (85% according to Logan) leaning to the left.
As some are aware, their lean has turned into a full-blown lurch to the left during the Trump era.
What does this mean for journalism? Does it mean we need more unbiased reporting? This is a question we’ve asked many times at NOQ Report. Since the vast majority of our writers are conservatives, it would make sense to continue to be a right-leaning publication. But some have suggested that America needs more unbiased reporting, and we’re definitely capable of doing that. But here’s the thing. If we and others go down the unbiased road while most of mainstream media remains bound to the left, are we really making a difference? The answer that we invariably come to is, “No.”
The only way to truly fight the bias is to maintain a sense of honesty about our perspectives. That means we are biased to both the conservative philosophy and the truth itself. Unlike leftist media, intellectually honest conservative media has the advantage of being both truthful and righteous simultaneously. This is why we can call out President Trump or the Republican Party when it’s appropriate. We are beholden to an ideology, not a political party, and therefore we do not have to hide the truth just because it isn’t convenient come election time.
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As I’ve done many times in the past, I have no problem with calling out anyone in any party when their actions are in opposition to the limited-government, federalism-minded, conservatively balanced philosophies we espouse. When President Trump had acting AG Matthew Whitaker sign the bump stock ban, we weren’t sitting back running cover for the President. We called out him, his administration, and every politician that supported this obtuse affront on the 2nd Amendment.
Lara Logan may or may not be calling out the media for their bias out of a sense or duty. There’s no way to know her heart. But her words were truthful and there seems to be nothing for her to gain from them. This message is one that deserves attention.
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Truth is the most and best way to report the news. Does S. Africa and it past have a part in Ms. Logan’s ideology.
Thank you most kindly.
Sincerely,
Jack Disraeli