Previewing his new TV show on an obscure cable channel operated by Al Gore, former MSNBC fill-in Cenk Uygur gave an interview to Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress, the blog of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress.
Naturally, the question on the minds of the Left is can we please dismantle the myth of objectivity that the "objective" media clings to oh so ferociously? In other words, they're asking Uygur if he will pledge to provide only "news" and informtion that pleases and encourages the Left without any troublesome conservative guests or any nods to the idea that the Left may be growing increasingly unpopular along with President Obama:
TP: Do you think part of what younger audiences are looking for is programming that’s about dismantling the myth of journalistics [sic] objectivity?
UYGUR: I think that overall the media is sick and it doesn’t even know it. And the disease is neutrality. And it drives me crazy when they don’t know the difference between neutrality and objectivity. I think objectivity is a good thing to try for even if you don’t reach it. I think that’s a minor problem. A much bigger problem is neutrality: Steelers and Cowboys play, Steelers win 42-0, I’m not going to say the Cowobys [sic] won. I’m not going to say that. It’s not what happened. If you tell me they played equally well, you’ve done a horrible job of bringing people the news. And I think that’s the current state of the mainstream media. They keep calling it even when it ain’t even.
Does Cenk think Team Obama is the Steelers in this scenario? Or just the radical left? Winning 42-0? That can't be based on political reality. It must be based on the sheer assumption that socialism is so much more awesome than capitalism that it's always far ahead of those crypto-fascist Tea Party boobs.
Just as MSNBC borrows heavily from the left-wing blogosphere, Cenk promises to be the assembly line of kooky "context" for Think Progs, Daily Kosmonauts and Huffington Posties:
TP: How will your show use content generated by popular online news blogs? Will you be giving a voice to the blogosphere?
UYGUR: No one scours the internet for news and video more than the Young Turks. So we have all the progressive websites that we look at every single day, and we integrate that into the show more thoroughly than anyone else. It’s in our DNA. You get much direct and accurate information. I mean CNN, are you really getting news from them? They never give any context. Often times, it’s a waste of time. That’s why I think the blogs are so much better. ThinkProgress always has what a politician said, here are their previous quotes, here’s their record, and that’s great. That’s why we go to your guys.
