Mears: My dad thought news orgs met to slant the news

“On the Media”
Walter Mears, who covered politics for AP for over four decades, doesn’t think much of the anti-liberal media books. “I think this stuff about the liberal media is a great way for a lot of right-wingers to sell books, usually very poorly written,” he tells Bob Garfield. He says his conservative father believed news organizations met daily in Washington and “decided on the line.” Mears told his dad: “I run the biggest news organization in Washington. They couldn’t have the meeting without me.” The old man replied: “Well you wouldn’t go, but the rest of them are there.”

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