Books, Arts & Manners: Making Passage

“It is ridiculous to keep arguing about whether the media (together with the other reverberators of public opinion) are biased. They are so organically and totally biased that they are not aware of their bias, any more than a healthy man is aware of his breathing and heartbeat.”

So wrote James Burnham in these pages in 1975, and what follows is mere footnote. At times I find it unbelievable that media people could be unconscious of how slanted their reporting is; but I suppose they are.