For someone who heads an organization purportedly dedicated to “media research,” Brent Bozell knows stunningly little about the media.
An interview with Bozell is quoted thusly in a Jan. 25 CNSNews.com blog post:
“Think of a cornered rat. When you do have a rat in a corner, what does that rat do, instinctively? It goes for the jugular,” Bozell said, predicting the traditional liberal media’s ultimate demise:
“This is what’s happening with the press. They’re losing numbers – dramatically – the networks have lost fifty percent of their audience. Newsweek was sold for a dollar and they’re closing it down now. The NYT could be liner for a parakeet cage.”
You know who else got sold for a dollar? The Washington Times. As we’ve detailed, neither of the conservative newspapers in Washington, the Times and the Examiner, are subject to a free market like the New York Times and the Washington Post — they’re owned by rich benefactors who can afford to lose millions of dollars (billions in the case of the Washington Times) in the service of generating biased journalism to promote an ideology.
Bozell manages to display an amazing degree of self-unawareness as the interview continues:
Bozell said that liberal media won’t see the light and change – they’ll just get “ugly” and more vicious “as the ship goes down”:
“Their numbers are becoming dramatically smaller. So, what’s their reaction? They could look at those number and say, my goodness, look at Fox: it’s going up. The only newspaper in the world that seems to be doing well is the Wall Street Journal. Maybe, they’re doing something right.
“They’re not going to do that. They’re going to get more and more militant and fighting back as the ship goes down. Look at CNN, MSNBC.”
Wait — Bozell just likened the media to cornered rats, and he’s complaining about media viciousness? Yes — the terminally angry activist who likened President Obama to a “skinny ghetto crackhead” is complaining about how the media is so mean.
Is Bozell that stupid, or is he just a mendacious liar? We report, you decide.