Publisher Blasts 'Liberal Media'

The average American is generally misinformed about the liberal media and their constitutional privileges, publisher of the conservative National Review, William A. Rusher, told an audience at the Law School Forum last night.

Rusher adressed an audience of about 45 and told them that the media has a overwhelmingly liberal slant which "tilts the pinball machine in its reportage."

The media elite, which consists of the major newspapers, networks, news magazines, and wire services, is "in a position to effectively cripple the morale of a society at war" because of its liberal slant, said the publisher of the magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.

Moreover, Rusher said, the public believes the media has more special constitutional privileges than they do have, but it also believes libel laws protect the public from the press.

Confidentiality of sources and freedom from prior restraint are two of the privileges only being sought by journalists which the public thinks they were meant to have by the founding fathers, Rusher said.

"Those pleading for such privileges are seeking power. Why? As Freud said, more wealth and a more active sex life," said Rusher, who graduated from the Law School.