Dead Men Tell No Bias

David Brinkley?s body still may be warm, but that hasn?t stopped the eagle-eyed liberal-bias hunters of the Media Research Center from performing its tireless duty:

David Brinkley, who passed away in Houston today at age 82, was probably a pretty conventional liberal during much of his career with NBC News and later with ABC News.

The column goes on to give the corpse credit for acknowledging liberal media bias late in his career.

Comments

[Quasimodo]

That quick obit was written long ago. All they did was waiting to insert "who passed away in Houston today at age 82."

They do that a lot, you know. Write obituaries now; fill in the blanks later.

[Matt Welch]

Do you think they have a file full of media-bias obits of every aging media star? *Man* would I love to see that. The 60 Minutes section alone would take you a full day to read....

[Warren]

I like the inference that he became a "testy libertarian" from being politically au fait for so long. Perhaps it is more generally true that exposure to politics breeds libertarianism.

[D.Tartaglia]

RE: "Perhaps it is more generally true that exposure to politics breeds libertarianism."

Actually, exposure to politics breeds political homelessness.

http://www.theadvocates.org/oph.html

[CharlesWT]

"And he became a rather testy libertarian. I can remember having dinner with him a few years ago in Florida, and he spent the evening complaining about taxes and complaining about limitations on the ability of people to own guns and so on, which certainly didn't sound like any liberal.

...Finally it kind of leaked out ? what I had never known before ? that he was essentially a kind of apolitical libertarian, meaning nonpartisan, not attached to the Republicans or Democrats, a sort of independent, rather testy libertarian." ?Robert Mac Neil In Memoriam?David Brinkley: Veteran news anchor David Brinkley died at his home in Houston on Wednesday. Terence Smith speaks with former NewsHour co-anchor Robert MacNeil about his work with the late journalist.

[Michael Geary]

It's certainly common practice to pre-write obituaries. These CNN obituary mockups made the news a while ago.

[Fischer Paul]

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