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CNN’s Chief Washington Correspondent and host of “The Lead” Jake Tapper is everywhere these days – last night on a panel for Anchorman2 at The Newseum, this morning getting his caffeine fix also at The Newseum for a panel discussion spearheaded by Politico’s Mike Allen for a special media roundtable about policy, politics and the news of the day.
Tapper was joined by Peter Baker, White House Correspondent, The New York Times and author, “Days of Fire” – Mark Leibovich, Chief National Correspondent, The New York Times Magazine and author, “This Town” – Kelly O’Donnell, Capitol Hill Correspondent, NBC News.
A big issue of the roundtable was once again as to whether the media is biased. Seems that the bias gravitates to the left. “Most of my colleagues, I have no idea what their politics are, but think about it. I live in northwest Washington, none of my neighbors are evangelical Christians, I don’t know a lot of people in my kid’s preschool who are pro-life,” Leibovich said.
Tapper finds it a bit more complex than left vs. conservative.
Baker addressed a different kind of bias: “The bigger bias is the bias toward conflict, the bias toward sensation, the bias toward the quick and easy and the simplistic. That’s our bias, and that’s what we have to fight every day.”
An interesting conversation. Tune in:
