Originally posted by Nash
Unbiased media is a relatively new thing. I wish I could remember the turning point.... but I can't. Sometime between 1920 and 1940. Before, papers were unapologetically biased.... and it was accepted. Something happened, and shreck me if I can remember what it was... but a whole code of ethics developed and the idea of unbiased journalism became ingrained.
Thinking about it.... it started in the 50's. During the cold war. It was a matter of out-freedoming Russia's press. Un-biased thruth, and flaunting that.
No you hit the nail on the head w/ your 1st try. The Round Table Groups were formally established at the Majestic Hotel in Paris, 19 March, 1919. Two branches (6 total branches at the start, and 14 now IIRC) are the Council on Foreigh Relations, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Just google any of 'em. Some interesting reading ('specially if your a conspiracy nut. GOT to read between the lines w/ this stuff).
Following is a parital list of some of the media that are members of the CFR.
CBS
William Paley
William Burden
Roswell Gilpatric
James Houghton
Henry Schacht
Marietta Tree
C.C. Collingswood
Laurence LaSueur
Dan Rather
Harry Reasoner
Richard Hottelet
Frank Stanton
Bill Moyers
NBC/RCA
Jane Pfeiffer
Lester Crystal
R.W. Sonnenfeldt
T.F. Bradshaw
John Petty
David Brinkley
John Chancellor
Marvin Kalb
Irving Levine
H. Schlosser
P.G. Peterson
Jown Sawhill
ABC
Ray Adam
Frank Cary
John Connor
T.M. Macioce
Ted Koppel
John Scalli
Barbara Walters
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
Hartford Gunn
Robert McNeil
Jim Lehrer
C. Hunter-Gault
Hodding Carter III
Daniel Schorr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Keith Fuller
Stanley Swinton
Louis Boccardi
Harold Anderson
Katherine Graham
U.P.I.
H. L. Stevenson
REUTERS
Michael Posner
BOSTON GLOBE
David Rogers
BALTIMORE SUN
Henry Trewhitt
NEW YORK TIMES CO.
Richard Gelb
James Reston
William Scranton
A.M. Rosenthal
Seymore Topping
James Greenfield
Max Frankel
Jack Rosenthal
Harding Bancroft
Amory Bradford
Orvil Dryfoos
David Halberstram
Walter Lippmann
L.E. Markel
H.L. Matthews
John Oakes
Adolph Ochs
Harrison Salisbury
A. Hays Sulzberger
A. Ochs Sulzberger
C.L. Sulzberger
H.L. Smith
Steven Rattner
Richard Burt
TIME INC.
Ralph Davidson
Donald M. Wilson
Louis Banks
Henry Grunwald
Alexander Heard
Sol Linowitz
Rawleigh Warner Jr.
Thomas Watson Jr.
WASHINGTON POST/NEWSWEEK
Katherine Graham
Phillip Graham
Arjay Miller
Frederick Beebe
Robert Christopher
Osborne Elliot
Phillip Geyelin
Kermit Lausner
Murry Marder
Malcomb Muir
Maynard Parker
George Will
Robert Kaiser
Meg Greenfield
Walter Pincus
Murray Gart
Peter Osnos
Don Oberdorfer
DOW JONES & CO. (WALL ST. JOURNAL)
William Agee
Charles Mayer
Robert Potter
Richard Wood
Robert Bartley
Karen House
NATIONAL REVIEW
Wm. F. Buckley Jr.
Richard Brookhiser
WASHINGTON TIMES
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Also, The leaders of ‘Time’, ‘Newsweek’, ‘Fortune’, ‘Business Week’, and numerous other publications are CFR members.
So in summery, I wouldn't say that there is a left, OR right wing media bias. I WOULD say there is a CFR adgenda bias.
(hides under bed waiting for the black suburbans and helicopters to come for me)
