John J. Miller Wants More Conservatives In Journalism

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guests: John J. Miller, Jeremy Carl, & Dutton Kearney

Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, Director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, about the history and importance of conservative journalism and his recent article on the subject. Jeremy Carl, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, discusses the shifting racial regime in America and his new book The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart. And Dutton Kearney, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, continues a series on James Joyce and the Modernist literary movement, this time diving into A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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0:00.0	From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored.
0:17.0	This is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.
0:25.3	Conservatives always have criticized the media. You know, liberal media bias goes back so far.
0:32.2	Candidates, presidents have criticized the press. Richard Nixon did it. Ronald Reagan did it. The Bush presidents
0:38.8	did it. This is an old, old problem. We're joined by John J. Miller. He is director of the Dow
0:43.8	Journalism Program here at Hillsdale College, also founder and executive director of the college
0:48.5	fix, which we'll talk about in a moment. John, thanks so much for joining us.
0:52.3	Hi, Scott.
0:53.5	Wrote a piece recently, find it at American Habits.org, a call for more conservative minds in
1:00.3	media. People might look and say, well, daily caller and national review. And there's a lot of
1:06.3	sites on the right that feature conservatives writing. So what do you mean? What's missing? We're
1:11.7	conservative missing in the media. Conservatives always have complained about liberal dominance
1:16.6	of the media. Liberal media bias. This is a generational problem. This goes back to the 50s and
1:22.9	the 60s. Very Goldwater complained about it. So did Ronald Reagan. This is an old, old problem for conservatives,
1:29.6	the fact that liberals seem to dominate the press. And you're right. There are a lot of new-ish websites,
1:35.8	news websites that present conservative viewpoints and so forth. But still, liberals dominate the media.
1:47.0	And this has been true for a long time. And the question is why. And I think at the root of it is the fundamental problem that not enough
1:53.9	conservatives go into the profession. They don't choose journalism as a career path. And until they do, this will remain a problem.
2:04.8	Part of the piece is examining why that might be. You say that there's a fear perhaps when you fail in
2:12.2	media, you fail in public in front of a lot of people. And there's also these social media
2:16.8	storms that largely tend to
2:18.6	target those on the right and not those on the left. Are those two aspects discouraging conservatives
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