Media ties to Democrats hard to ignore

Erick Erickson:

A few years ago I gave a talk in Texas on the incestuousness between the Democratic Party and the media. One of the slides noted that Jay Carney of Time magazine left the magazine to go work for Vice President Joe Biden and then on to be White House press secretary. When Carney left Biden's office, he was replaced by Shailagh Murray, who went in from the Washington Post. In turn, she was married to Neil King who worked for the Wall Street Journal.

Neil contacted me. He took issue with my implication that he couldn't be fair in his coverage of Washington given his marriage. While I don't dispute that he covered Washington with an even hand, I thought and still think that it was indicative of his world view and how stories might be shaped that he more likely than not leaned left and was married to Joe Biden's press secretary. So it is somewhat funny to me to note he left the Wall Street Journal and went to work for Fusion GPS, which is now in the news as the group that created the Trump dossier from Christopher Steel.

In fact, the Washington Post is now reporting that Fusion GPS used media connections to advance interests of various groups that paid it. It is an ascertainable fact that many reporters have failed to aggressively pursue this story because they have knowingly or unknowingly been used by Fusion GPS to advance the interests of paying clients.

But hundreds of internal company documents obtained by The Washington Post reveal how Fusion, a firm led by former journalists, has used investigative reporting techniques and media connections to advance the interests of an eclectic range of clients on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and in the nation’s capital. The firm has played an unseen role in stories that dominated headlines in recent years.

We also now know that Fusion GPS did not just hire journalists, but also had a senior Department of Justice employee's wife on its payroll at a time it was creating the Steel dossier.

This likewise comes as there are new questions about Adam Schiff, the congressman the media loves and who may have been one of the CNN sources who caused them to get basic facts wrong on Friday in a story related to Trump's emails.
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Erickson goes on to name some of the parties to the media collusion through marriage and other relationships.  It really explains why they are not only so bad, but also why they are so insular in their political viewpoints.