Why Texas Media’s Election Coverage Was More Appalling Than Usual
For years, I’ve tracked how the Texas corporate media more or less behaves like cheerleaders and activists for the Democratic Party.
Even though Texas — Austin and San Antonio aside — has been hard red for more than 30 years, this is still the state that gave us Bob Schieffer and Dan Rather, both of whom are Exhibit A when it comes to liberal media bias.
I’ve worked in the Texas media. I’ve had behind-closed doors conversations with a few of that state’s corporate media figureheads.
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There was one time 15 years ago when some of my social media comments about how welfare creates dependency seriously pissed off the famous and now deceased Dallas Morning News writer and editor and author Paula LaRocque. LaRocque, whom I’d met a couple of years earlier, had a very nasty attitude about the Right — and so did all of her coworkers.
About 11 years ago I interviewed with the two editors at a very prominent and well-known publication in Houston that presents itself to the public as an objective and non-partisan news outlet. The editors’ office, however, had a large “Hillary For President” sign.
Of course, I didn’t get the job, and I knew that I wouldn’t. Out of curiosity, I looked up both editors on Facebook. Both made Hillary Clinton their cover photos. In public social media posts, they complained relentlessly about Republicans.
For the one year I worked at a newspaper near Fort Worth. I was the only reporter in the newsroom who didn’t keep communist propaganda on my desk, and I did well to keep my opinions to myself.
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Texas reporters pose as objective seekers of truth, but in reality they’re liberal activists who despise their own viewers and readers. I don’t think a lot of conservative Texans truly understand to what extent.
Until this past election cycle, the Texas media at least pretended to reign in their personal biases. But what we just went through was a Democratic Party pep rally brought to us by The Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, The Austin American-Statesman and nearly every other major Texas newspaper. The TV news stations acted no better.
We saw report after report after report written from the point of view of progressives who embrace the weird, New-Age Christianity that James Tallarico embraces — as if that’s the norm in most of Texas. Don’t tell me the biased headlines didn’t have a subliminal effect on voters whose understanding of politics is peripheral and who still trust everything the corporate media reports as gospel.
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To Texas I say this:
A lot of you will have buyer’s remorse in a few months.
Please take what your media tells you with extreme skepticism instead of accepting it as truth.
Assume no one in the corporate media has integrity. Assume the same corporate media has an ulterior motive for whatever they pass on to you…because they do.
An attitude like that is the beginning of wisdom.
Not the end.
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