The liberal media is simply on a crusade to promote liberalism which in modern society is defined as social re-engineering through the strong arm of government.

Pointing out government failure is a sweet spot for them, whether foreign or domestic, because every problem in the world is solved by fixing government. Listen to NPR or BBC. Every story is about something government is or isn’t doing.

On the commercial side, news is marketing. Advertisers want people and people want entertainment, tragedy, sex and violence.

I also disagree that “Journalists’ hunger for the images, sounds and smells of horror shows the extent to which they’ve abandoned their responsibility to analyse and make sense of events.”

The last thing I want is some pretty boy talking head to try to make sense of the events. Heaven help us!

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Peter Leavitt’s post was far more serious, and I join it.

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Since liberals are depraved, they can’t know it. Someone on an adjacent thread just played Romans 1 — “God has given them up to their own depraved way of thinking . . . they not only do these things themselves but approve such conduct in others.” As the apostle says in that immortal passage, all liberal thinking has ended in futility. It’s over. Their misguided minds are plunged in darkness. Depravity puts liberals beyond remorse.

You’d have to admit, NJ, that a liberal would make an unsuccessful depravity monger, ignorantly missing the evil under his nose and getting scooped by WorldMag.

In the face of terrible things, the liberal elitist whom Harrison presents for our consideration is blaming journalists of all people. You’d think Harrison would be attacking him for shooting the messengers, but I think Harrison’s confused. My point is that reporters who search out the key to human experience in a religious explanation like depravity are submitting to market discipline. They owe it to their careers and families.

If I were a journalist, my self respect would urge me to tell people the truth that suffering is due to neglect of liberal remedies. But when the customers prefer the taste of Calvinism and are reassured by the just deserts of others, I’m afraid I’d have to go ahead and tell them that all the world needs is a Savior.

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It never occurs to these poor characters that they and their precious networks in behaving as ratings vultures are themselves richly involved in evil.

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Harrison offers the Spiked article as evidence that liberals have betrayed their principles by borrowing the language of God to account for reality. Sorry to spoil his fun, but I don’t think it does. this. The member of the “liberal elite” who wrote the article clearly is furious at journalists who pull Calvinism out of wikipedia to write the news. Harrison seems to assume that because journalists belong to the “liberal elite,” the organizing concepts of their stories have something to do with liberalism, but the conclusion doesn’t follow. I think the depravity journalism is a function of supply and demand.

Since conservatives make up the bulk of the market for mass media, it’s not surprising that journalism supplies the demand. Fox News didn’t spring from the brain of Roger Ailes. The article in Spiked criticizes journalists for pandering to conservatives, it doesn’t betray the secularist theory of the good and the bad.

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