Hmmm. The press is generally liberal, Karl Rove said, according to this article in the Wasington Post. But, he said, “I think it’s less liberal than it is oppositional.”

Damn right.

“Reporters now see their role less as discovering facts and fair-mindedly reporting the truth and more as being put on the earth to afflict the comfortable, to be a constant thorn of those in power, whether they are Republican or Democrat,” Rove said.

His indictment of the media - delivered as part of Washington College’s Harwood Lecture Series, named for the late Washington Post editor and writer Richard Harwood - had four parts: that there’s been an explosion in the number of media outlets; that these outlets have an insatiable demand for content; that these changes create enormous competitive pressure; and that journalists have increasingly adopted an antagonistic attitude toward public officials.

Beyond that, Rove argued that the press pays too much attention to polls and “horse-race” politics, and covers governing as if it were a campaign.

I’m wondering what the conservative bloggers over at Press Think think of that? It should shut them up but, of course, it won’t.

GW

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