{"id":8502,"date":"2006-09-19T09:44:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8502.html"},"modified":"2006-09-19T09:44:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:44:40","slug":"a-diverse-chorus-featuring-varying-degrees-of-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-diverse-chorus-featuring-varying-degrees-of-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘diverse chorus’ — featuring varying degrees of conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ezra noted<\/a> yesterday that [tag]Time[\/tag] magazine has expanded its growing blog presence by adding another political site to its mix. Take a wild guess where it falls on the ideological spectrum.<\/p>\n

[tag]Real Clear Politics[\/tag] has entered a content deal with Time magazine, and will now have their blog hosted on Time’s servers. “TIME.com hosts a diverse chorus of political voices,” said Josh Tyrangiel, the editor, “and we’re excited to add the Real Clear Politics blog to the mix.”<\/p>\n

Except that’s not true. Real Clear Politics is an unabashedly conservative site. It’s a very, very good one<\/i>, and there’s no conservative commentary I prefer to read, but it’s happily and totally right-of-center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, unfortunately, there’s no counterbalance.<\/p>\n

Real Clear Politics will be Time’s third political blog, and its seventh blog overall<\/a>. RCP joins Andrew Sullivan (conservative), Mike Allen (non-ideological political reporter), and one blog each on the subjects of science, international health, medicine, and television.<\/p>\n

Just to be clear, RCP is an excellent site, and I don’t begrudge Time for picking it up. Moreover, all of Time’s blogs are strong sites with top-notch content, and the magazine deserves credit for embracing the medium so enthusiastically. But if you have three political blogs, and two are conservative while the other is non-partisan, it’s not really “a diverse chorus of political voices.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it’s something of a recent trend.
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\n* CNN’s three most recent additions to the network’s political coverage are former Republican congressman J.C. Watts, moralist Bill Bennett, and far-right radio host Glenn Beck, all conservatives. There are no comparably liberal correspondents on the network.<\/p>\n

* The Washington Post hired Ben Domenech<\/a>, a hardline conservative who used to work for Bush, as an official blogger for the paper. Though Domenech was ultimately forced to resign, the Post was prepared to go with having a blog line-up featuring someone on the far-right and no one on the left.<\/p>\n

* When producers book guests for the Sunday-morning news shows, on every network, they’ve allowed conservative voices to dominate<\/a> for a decade.<\/p>\n

Of course, Time could help bring some additional balance to its line-up by hiring a hard-working, experienced progressive blogger like … I don’t know … me? Time, my door is always open to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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