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Mark Halperin's Flip-Flop at ABC News

Halperin's misguided assualt on the media for being "overwhelmingly liberal" is part of a borderline obsession to "prove" to conservatives that the Beltway press can play nice.
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Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America

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Halperin's public, and misguided, assualt on the media for being "overwhelmingly liberal" is indicative of a larger trend taking place within the uppermost echelons of the elite media: a borderline obsession to "prove" to conservatives that the Beltway press can play nice. Corporate journalists have developed an acute case of rabbit ears, becoming preoccupied with the catcalls from the right, and have decided, for increasingly selfish and personal reasons, to make nice with the right-wing crowd, even if it means trampling journalistic standards in the process.

Read the full Media Matters column here.

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