Published: 7\/31\/2020 11:26:40 AM<\/p>\n
In his book, Bias, former CBS news reporter Bernard Goldberg claims that there is a liberal bias in the national news media. He writes The bias Im talking about, by the way, isnt so much political bias of the Democratic-versus-Republican sort. For me that isnt the real problem. The problem comes in the big social and cultural issues abortion, gun control, feminism ,gay rights, the environment, school prayer.<\/p>\n
Nowhere in his list do any of the economic and financial struggles of the poor, the near-poor, the lower classes, and the middle classes appear.<\/p>\n
He is among a number of conservatives who seem to suggest that the liberals of the 1960s were primarily concerned with the bread-and-butter issues of survival of these groups as well as with expanding the social safety-net federal government programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps), while the progressives of 2020 seem to be primarily concerned with the social, identity-politics and culture-wars issues.<\/p>\n
To the extent that this is accurate. You can put me down as siding more with the liberals of the 1960s than with the progressives of 2020.<\/p>\n
(This letter to the editor is dedicated to the Suffragist Alice Paul.)<\/p>\n
Stewart B. Epstein<\/p>\n
Rochester, N.Y.<\/p>\n
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