“The truth … is that American liberals lost effective control of the Johnson administration and its agenda in or about 1966, when Johnson’s Great Society programs … began to be overshadowed by his increasing commitment to the war in Vietnam … It is no coincidence whatever that the liberal media elite’s “inherent bias against the establishment,” and therefore against the presidency, dates from precisely the same period. Since then, there has not been a president in the White House, Republican or Democrat, of whom liberals wholeheartedly approved, and the fact that the media have in general attacked all of them does not … disprove, but in fact demonstrates, their knee-jerk liberalism.”
Source: The Coming Battle for the Media: Curbing the Power of the Media Elite (1988).
Keywords: media,culture-wars,policy
