News Flash: Bias In Media Is Not New, Seasoned Journalist Says

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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John Miller entered the field of journalism in Washington D.C. in the early 1990s. There were only a handful of outlets staffing conservative commentary writers at the time, and, even then, Miller says he remembers being frustrated by the liberal bias in the media. “This notion that, you know, a generation ago we used to have objective reporters at The New York Times is nonsense,” Miller, executive director of The College Fix, says. “I mean, they were doing the same thing back then, also pretending they were something they were not. They were putting their finger on the scale constantly when they were covering elections, and candidates, and debates, and Congress, and so forth.” Today, Miller argues that conservative have “a louder voice today than they've ever had before in the media.” But the challenge now, according to Miller, “is populating this media with good writers, with good talkers, people who can make podcasts and so on. And lots of folks are doing it, obviously, but we need more people coming in and more talented people coming in.” In addition to leading The College Fix, Miller also serves as director of the journalism program at Hillsdale College, where he daily takes part in training young conservative journalists. He is a board member of The Daily Signal. Miller joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what has, and has not, changed in the field of journalism, and how he is actively working to train young conservative journalists.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, September 16th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.4	You know, there are few people that have had more influence on the
0:15.4	field of journalism and specifically conservative journalism and
0:19.6	influence on young conservative journalists than John Miller.
0:24.3	John Miller serves as the director of the journalism program at
0:27.4	Hillsdale College.
0:28.8	He also heads the college fix.
0:30.9	He's written countless news articles and more publications than I can
0:34.8	list here, multiple books, and in full disclosure he is also a board member of
0:39.5	the Daily Signal and so we are so pleased to have joining us today John Miller.
0:45.2	Thank you so much for being with us today Mr Miller.
0:47.5	My pleasure Virginia.
0:48.5	Thanks for having me on.
0:49.5	Well I would love to jump in just by talking a little bit about your past in the field of journalism.
0:55.2	Did you set out with the intention of being a journalist or was it something you sort of fell into early on in life?
1:06.6	I was a kid who who liked to read books and was then
1:14.9	drawn to writing I guess and had teachers who encouraged me growing up so by the time I got to college I went to University of Michigan I was definitely thinking about writing and journalism and I fell into a publication in Ann
1:21.5	Arbor, the Michigan Review, which was the conservative or
1:25.2	libertarian newspaper on campus and became involved in that and did that for
1:30.6	four years and that led to a career as a professional writer.
1:36.1	Wow and now you're based in Michigan. I love the fact that on your own website you start off by describing yourself as someone that lives down a rural dirt road in Michigan and yet you're writing for a lot of really large outlets across the US and training other
1:55.0	journalists to do so. Where does that love for you of training come from and
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