Conflict of interest?

[dteowner]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090218/pl_politico/18971

And people doubt my "liberal media" stance.

[Squeek]

If you look at the voting history of Washington DC, its three Electoral College votes usually go to the Democratic Party candidate. Why? The bureaucracy that always increases in a Democratic administration means a lot more DC jobs.

Of course, the Republicans managed to grow the government a ton this last time around, so....

Nationwide the only business I can think of that's sure to grow, grow, grow in the next few years is the federal government. Might be a good time to apply!

[dteowner]

DC proper is something like 50% minority as well, so between the bureaucrats and the minorities, DC going democrat has been a foregone conclusion for decades.

The part that bugs me about this is the strong smell of quid pro quo. I posted studies during the election showing a pronounced lean in media reports toward Obama. Was he great, or did he just promise better carrots than McCain?

[magerette]

There's always the possibility that Obama was just a better story for the media than McCain, too. Charismatic, flamboyant oratory, first black candidate, etc etc--McCain had nothing but "angry old war hero who picked hot chick VP candidate" going for him. They seemed to milk all of those aspects pretty thoroughly and impartially in order of sensationalism to me--along with Rev Wright and Bill Ayers.

I think the media is mostly just out for the media, and pure journalism (assuming there is any) is a very shaky job right now. I'm too lazy to see whether there are any conservative journalists who've gotten jobs with Repub administrations, but I know there are plenty of conservatives who've gotten hired elsewhere because they were conservatives(see Bush DoJ rants) ;)

Edit: i just read the whole article, and the only ones maintaining that point are Michele Malkin and "Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center"(NOT impartial, sorry and I'm trying real hard not to make a clown pun on the Bozello guy) and some rightie bloggers. Everyone else quoted says it's more economics than politics.

But nice try. :)

[V7]

If you look at the voting history of Washington DC, its three Electoral College votes usually go to the Democratic Party candidate. Why? The bureaucracy that always increases in a Democratic administration means a lot more DC jobs.


Or maybe people working for the government think (gasp! shock!) government is a good idea.