So, I know I am in the minority here (a very small minority <g>) but I think that MUCH of the liberal media (mainstream, not the fringe stuff like HuffPo)
tries to be evenhanded. I agree that they have a slant, but by and large it's not a
conscious slant and they try to be what they think is balanced.
So I was interested to read this piece in Slate - note the headline itself if a comment on the media's own rush to judgement.
Jeff Sessions Just Said Slavery Caused the Civil War. That’s an Outrageous White Supre—Oh, Wait, That’s Actually Right
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/jeff-sessions-on-slavery-lincoln-and-the-civil-war-non-outrageous.html
The author himself, however, confuses the issue in his closing paragraph where he wryly comments that we are giving credit for stating slavery is bad. Whooops - slipped the issue again. No one in public will claim that slavery wasn't bad (thank God we've gotten that far at least) - the issue was the "Lost Cause" mythology that the US Civil War was about State's rights. And thankfully our AG came down squarely against that bit of revisionist history.
Well, still, as a liberal I can see him trying <g>....
(By the way, I know we have some people here who firmly believe slavery was not a root cause of the civil war. We've argued about that before, we can re-argue it in another thread if you want to, no need to re-hash it here - this thread is about the media)
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