"They really do hate people like me"

To have an informed national debate on redefining marriage, we could really use some even-handed coverage by our major media outlets. Let me know when you find it. Rod Dreher:

When it comes to reporting on the debate and events around the same-sex marriage issue, the [Washington] Post feels it has no responsibility to report fairly and accurately on people who oppose same-sex marriage, because they are morally wrong....

Over the years, talking to fellow conservatives about media bias, it has usually been my place, as one who worked in mainstream media, to tell conservatives that they’re wrong in some significant way about media bias — not its existence, but the way it works. Most reporters and editors, in my 20 years of experience, do not set out to slant stories, and in fact try to be fair. The bias that creeps into their coverage is typically the result of a newsroom monoculture, in which they don’t see the bias because everybody, or nearly everybody, within that culture agrees on so much.

In the case of gay rights and the marriage debate, though, they don’t even make an effort to be fair....They honestly believe they are morally absolved from having to treat the views of about half the country with basic fairness in reporting....

I love journalism, and consider it important. But when it comes to reporting on the culture war, my profession is deeply corrupt, and profoundly self-righteous. The contempt with which so many within newsrooms hold social conservatives and traditional Christians is real. Stories like this one temper my sorrow over the demise of my profession. They really do hate people like me, and consider us not worthy of the basic fairness they would use in approaching their reporting on criminals and terrorists.

Wow. Read the whole thing.

 

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