The idea of “the liberal media” and its roots in the civil rights movement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7536629
AutoresDavid Greenberg (0000-0002-8746-1410, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen1
Número2
Páginas167-186
Fecha de publicación2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sixties (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1754-1336 • E-ISSN: 1754-1328
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17541320802457111
OpenAlexW2119342217
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas34

Scholars often ask whether the mainstream news media exhibit a liberal bias, but rarely where the idea of such a bias first came from. This article traces the idea’s origins to the civil rights movement. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, white Southerners grew resentful toward national journalists who covered the movement, whom they saw as advocating desegregation. Losing the battle for public opinion, Southern spokesmen such as Alabama Governor George Wallace adopted a populistic idiom, promoting the notion that an elite, left‐leaning Northeastern media were distorting the news to fit their politics – an idea that soon, under President Nixon, became conservative dogma

Aesthetics · Civil rights · Movement (music · Political science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Law · Philosophy