Endorsement for my theory about J-schools

John Leo on media's anti-military bias:

Most media hiring today is from universities where a military career is regarded as bizarre and almost any exercise of American power is considered wrongheaded or evil.

That's where all the notions come from about journalists representing the people's right to know and holding power accountable, instead of just reporting stories objectively and accurately. It's hard to have diversity when there are so few conservatives coming out of journalism schools.

I wonder if Dan Rather's swandive/belly flop will inspire a lot of young conservatives to go into journalism the way Nixon's did. I doubt it. Who would want to go into a dying industry? I think journalism will survive, but not the way it's being practiced today.

Be sure to read Leo's column. He says it so well:

Much of what journalists turn out is very good. But when they omit or mess up stories, run badly skewed polls, or publish disgraceful front-page editorials posing as news stories, nobody seems to notice because groupthink is so strong.

Time is running out on the newsroom monoculture. The public has many options now—as well as plenty of media watchdogs, both professional and amateur.

All you have to do is read a few MSM stories about bloggers to see that groupthink in action.

Update: Roger L. Simon has similar points about political correctness spreads through the education establishment. Once you no longer recognize the difference between opinions and conclusions from facts, you're not are so much an educator as an indoctrinator.