Federal Judge Rips Media For “Bias Against GOP,” Calls Them ‘Democratic Party Trumpets’

Posted on 2 years ago by Red Paper News

A federal appeals judge dropped the hammer on the media in a dissenting opinion in a defamation case. He accused The New York Times and The Washington Post of basically being “Democratic Party broadsheets.” 

Washington, D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman, a Reagan appointee, wrote that the news industry is dominated with a “bias against the Republican Party” which he wrote was “rather shocking.”

Without naming them specifically, the judge made the case the papers largely functioned as mouthpieces for the Democratic Party. He also ripped the Wall Street Journal saying, “the news section of The Wall Street Journal leans in the same direction.”

“The orientation of these three papers is followed by The Associated Press and most large papers across the country (such as the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Boston Globe),” he continued. “Nearly all television—network and cable is a Democratic Party trumpet. Even the government-supported National Public Radio follows along.” 

He said Silicon Valley “also has an enormous influence over the distribution of news” before claiming the Valley “similarly filters news delivery in ways favorable to the Democratic Party.” 

He praised Fox News, The New York Post, and The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page as “notable exceptions to Democratic Party ideological control.” 

“It should be borne in mind that the first step taken by any potential authoritarian or dictatorial regime is to gain control of communications, particularly the delivery of news,” Silberman continued. 

“It is fair to conclude, therefore, that one-party control of the press and media is a threat to a viable democracy. It may even give rise to countervailing extremism.”

Silberman said the high court’s decision has “increased the power of the media,” and that the enormous power they have is “now abused” by letting “the press to cast false aspersion on public figures with near impunity.”

From Politico:

Silberman said the decision, requiring public figures to show “actual malice” to recover against a news organization for libel, was a “policy-driven” result that the justices simply invented out of whole cloth.

Silberman echoed and approvingly cited an opinion Justice Clarence Thomas issued two years ago, questioning the rationale of New York Times v. Sullivan and calling for the high court to revisit the decision.

“Justice Thomas has already persuasively demonstrated that New York Times was a policy-driven decision masquerading as constitutional law,” the judge wrote.

But the exceptional aspect of Silberman’s opinion was not its legal arguments, but the protracted airing of the judge’s evidently deep-seated, pent-up grievances that conservatives are being oppressed by overwhelmingly liberal news media, academia and technology companies. That has created “a frighteningly orthodox media culture,” he wrote.

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