Liberal Bias In Media

Once you become aware of it, I find it hard to unsee. On my iphone news, I've been getting a lot of articles about Abigail Disney talking about bad working conditions for employees and how Bob Iger is overpaid, etc.

Now, it's not that I disagree with her on substance, but I find her access to the bullhorn strange. First of all, I've never once heard of this woman. Her only claim to fame is being the granddaughter of Walt Disney and having a shit ton of money. Most trust funders and rich kids keep out of the news and don't criticize the CEOs of their grandfather's companies. My point is: the only reason she's in the news is because she's spouting off on topics the liberal news find acceptable -- ie criticism of big business, criticism of Disney working conditions, etc.

I wish Abigail went a step further and talked about what a shit show the Disneyland experience is for customers. Middle and lower middle class families shelling out hundreds of dollars to wait in hours of lines and consume sugar.

My point: she's gets a microphone because there's conflict with a touch of irony and a liberal agenda.

As a counterexample: there is a massive scandal at the Department of Education about thousands of teachers who fulfilled requirements to get their school loans forgiven, but the Department rejecting en mass their loan forgiveness for various little things like clerical errors, not reading the small print, etc. There has been little to no news coverage of this failure by the Federal government to live up to promises made to hard working middle class Americans in financial distress who perform an important job to the future of our country. There are a few scattered articles and good radio piece on the scandal from NPR, but certainly not widespread media attention. Nothing near the coverage Trump receives on a dodgy tweet or even this Abigail Disney thing. This is akin to the government punishing and stealing from teachers serving underserved communities. I mean, can you imagine a more awful thing to do? Many of these teachers dedicated a decade of service only to be told they owe loans plus interest for that time.

The question is why?

And the answer is simple. Because the liberal media doesn't want to make the Department of Education look bad. They don't want to make the Federal Government look corrupt and incompetent when it comes to education policy (which it is) because they want the Federal Government to take a bigger role in education and public education. The scandal doesn't help the liberal policy or political agenda. I'm pretty sure this is why we don't see the media beating up the Department of Education on the scandal. Why aren't AOC and Elizabeth Warren talking about this issue? This issue should be a layup for them. Why? Because it doesn't make just make Trump look bad. It makes all of them look bad. So there's silence.

I also think the Department of Education is fixing the scandal. But since when is this reason for the media to go quiet on an issue? This should be a warning shot to those who propose forgiving all student loans and anyone with big ideas about how to "fix" education from a federal level. The feds have created the student loan mess, can't even execute the existing policies they have, what makes us think such a plan would could be pulled off at all?