https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/03/16/the-inevitable-gold-watch-speech/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 17:41:51 -0400<![CDATA[While more and more journalists are now going on the record about their biases (or simply going on the record as being an out and out cheerleader for Barack Obama, either as a candidate or as the president),  because journalists understandably don&#8217;t want to risk job security, there&#8217;s often very little talk about bias until they retire. And then they&#8217;ll spill the beans surprisingly often. In 2003, long after he left the airwaves, Walter Cronkite told readers of his syndicated column, &#8220;I believe that most of us reporters are liberal&#8221;. And as the Washington Post&#8217;s Thomas Edsall admitted to Hugh Hewitt in 2006, shortly after retiring from the Washington Post, but before becoming an editor at the Huffington Post (and gosh, there&#8217;s a surprisingly lateral move):]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:15:16 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2009/03/16/the-inevitable-gold-watch-speech-n240131