Leftists hate ANY coverage of viewpoints other than their own

Left-leaning WaPo columnist Dionne is outraged that the media sometimes cover statements by Limbaugh and Gingrich. Taranto has some good remarks about that:

"E.J. Dionne, a liberal columnist for the Washington Post, makes a surprising acknowledgment: The news media are politically biased. This is both more and less surprising than you'd think, however, because of the direction in which he thinks they're biased:

"A media environment that tilts to the right is obscuring what President Obama stands for and closing off political options that should be part of the public discussion.

Yes, you read that correctly: If you doubt that there is a conservative inclination in the media, consider which arguments you hear regularly and which you don't. When Rush Limbaugh sneezes or Newt Gingrich tweets, their views ricochet from the Internet to cable television and into the traditional media. It is remarkable how successful they are in setting what passes for the news agenda.

Just how risible this is, Dionne himself makes clear in the fourth paragraph, when he observes: "Democrats are complicit in building up Gingrich and Limbaugh as the main spokesmen for the Republican Party, since Obama polls so much better than either of them." Does this mean Democrats tilt to the right? Dionne doesn't say, but it seems clear to us that reporters largely see Gingrich and Limbaugh the same way Democrats do: as figures of contempt or even hatred.

Reader Greg Lindenberg observes of Dionne's argument: "This is like saying the Union controlled the Confederate media because all it talked about was the Yankees." It's reminiscent, too, of the old joke about the German Jew explaining to his friend why he prefers Der Stürmer over the local Yiddish paper: "This paper says we Jews control the media, the economy, the banks, the whole world. Your paper has nothing but bad news."

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