WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY ORGANIZATIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF IDEOLOGICAL INTOLERANCE?

On election Tuesday, ESPN’s ombudsman wrote:

Many ESPN employees I talked to — including liberals and conservatives, most of whom preferred to speak on background — worry that the company’s politics have become a little too obvious, empowering those who feel as if they’re in line with the company’s position and driving underground those who don’t.

“If you’re a Republican or conservative, you feel the need to talk in whispers,” one conservative ESPN employee said. “There’s even a fear of putting Fox News on a TV [in the office].”

Which sounds virtually identical to what the Washington Post’s then-ombudswoman reported immediately after the 2008 election:

It pains me to see lost subscribers and revenue, especially when newspapers are shrinking. Conservative complaints can be wrong: The mainstream media were not to blame for John McCain’s loss; Barack Obama’s more effective campaign and the financial crisis were.

But some of the conservatives’ complaints about a liberal tilt are valid. Journalism naturally draws liberals; we like to change the world. I’ll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama. I did. There are centrists at The Post as well. But the conservatives I know here feel so outnumbered that they don’t even want to be quoted by name in a memo.

Funny how these things keep happening, and yet no one in the MSM ever does anything to change the corporate culture. And yet they simultaneously wonder why, in the case of the Washington Post, their institution’s business valuation went from two billion at the start of the 21st century down to $250 million when Jeff Bezos purchased it in 2013. Or in the case of ESPN, they keep losing viewers – including a stunning 621,000 subscribers last month alone, according to Nielson.

And sometimes, they even lose elections.