Suicide of the Western Media

by Robert Spencer
PJ Media
July 16, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2784/suicide-of-the-western-media

Excerpt:

That the mainstream media leans overwhelmingly to the Left has long been known; that it shares the hard Left's taste for authoritarian controls on the freedom of speech has not been so widely noted, but is becoming increasingly clear. Last week both the British Guardian and the New York Daily News published pieces equating truthful and accurate reporting about jihad violence and Islamic supremacism with "hate speech," and calling for such reporting to be placed beyond the bounds of acceptable public discourse. That restrictions on free speech might come to harm their own profession is apparently something they haven't considered.

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