{"id":1449230,"date":"2022-04-21T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449230"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:41:23","slug":"washington-posts-newest-job-starting-proves-liberal-medias-desire-for-conservatives-in-the-wild-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-posts-newest-job-starting-proves-liberal-medias-desire-for-conservatives-in-the-wild-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post\u2019s Newest Job Starting Proves Liberal Media\u2019s DESIRE FOR \u2018Conservatives In The Wild\u2019 Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-posts-newest-job-starting-proves-liberal-medias-desire-for-conservatives-in-the-wild-continues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449230&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-50.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post is looking for a new reporter with a certain set of skills that equips them with the ability to connect with an alien culture and way of life that is apparently so foreign to the editors and writers at the Washington Post, they simply had to go outside the company to find such a person; WaPo, as folks inside the Beltway call it, needs a journalist who can cover what it is like living in the red state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in posting this job, they are illuminating their own biases in the process.<\/p>\n<p>On April 12, the D.C.-based media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WashPostPR\/status\/1513884976357560335?s=20&#038;t=966eNabBc3dTfKG04dURRg\">tweeted<\/a> that it \u201cis looking for an enterprising reporter based in Texas to document life in red state America and develop a new beat mapping the culture, public policies and politics in a region shaped by conservative ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The job <a href=\"https:\/\/washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com\/washingtonpostcareers\/job\/TX-TWP-Remote-Office\/National-Correspondent--Texas_JR-90273433\">listing<\/a> notes that the \u201cideal candidate is a seasoned journalist who will unearth revelatory stories about a part of the country that is governed largely by one political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That statement alone makes it sound as if Texas is the only state to be governed mostly by one certain political party. It is doubtful that the editors at the Post view California, a Democratic state, through the same lens.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet is also looking for a \u201creporter who is a graceful writer and can deliver both intimate personal stories and high-elevation pieces that illuminate the forces driving political polarization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We can take \u201cgraceful writer\u201d to mean one who is not pompously liberal and would turn off everybody in the state of Texas from even talking to them. For example, former Bush advisor Matthew Dowd, who lives in Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-bush-cheney-advisor-jesus-christ-would-be-called-a-groomer-if-he-was-alive-today\">claimed<\/a> Wednesday that if Jesus Christ were still living, people might call him a \u201cgroomer.\u201d Objectively, there is nothing graceful about that comparison. He would not match what the Post is looking for in a job candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, don\u2019t worry, this writer won\u2019t have to actually get down and dirty with Texas conservatives. He or she will just have to keep the story at a high enough elevation so that the Post can explain how a conservative reading the Bible affects an atheist in New York City or something.<\/p>\n<p>Also, has the Post ever stopped to consider that mainstream media outlets who treat conservatives like creatures in the wild that need to be studied are the \u201cforces driving political polarization?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As covered on Wednesday, perhaps the plethora of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/obamas-warning-about-disinformation-again-lets-take-a-look-at-some-examples-shall-we\">inaccurate stories and in some cases outright lies<\/a> from the Democratic Party and its media allies about conservatives over the last eight years are what is creating a divide in America.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon in mainstream media is nothing new. In 2010, former National Review writer Jonah Goldberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/re-conservative-anthropology-jonah-goldberg\/\"><span>opined<\/span><\/a><span> that it is essentially anthropology, not journalism. \u201c\u2026 whenever I read liberals reporting about the goings-on of conservatives I always get the nature-documentary vibe,\u201d Goldberg said in one blog post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA liberal reporter puts on his or her Dian Fossey hat in order to attempt to write another installment of <i><span>Conservatives in the Mist,<\/span><\/i><span>\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019ve followed this particular brand of reporting for years, it\u2019s almost a fetish of mine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Comparing conservatives to \u201cgorillas,\u201d Goldberg noted that the liberal reporter often writes rather insulting articles. Eventually, \u201cwe conservatives grow comfortable enough around them to return to our old patterns. We scratch and fight and do our gorilla things and the chronicler dutifully takes notes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg remarked that those notes \u201cmake their way into an article for the New York Times or The New Yorker or Vanity Fair\u201d \u2014 or in 2022, the Post.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg ended his column with a rather humorous fictional morning scene:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWho knew?\u201d the readers will say over their morning bagels and coffee in Southampton or Fire Island, \u201cI had no idea conservatives were such intelligent creatures. Why they even have the capacity for emotion and even some rudimentary forms of kindness.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the irony here is now that Goldberg has signed on to appear on the liberal network CNN, arguably to serve as the token conservative. To play off his example of \u201cGorillas in the Mist,\u201d perhaps his new role would be similar to the gorilla being brought to the zoo for further study under captivity?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, if the Post simply focused on reporting the truth \u2014 rather than advancing the progressive agenda as it often seems is the case \u2014 they would not need a red state reporter. They would just need a Texas-based reporter for coverage of the state to report accurately, wherever the story may lead.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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