Conservative blowhard Hugh Hewitt interviewed Mark Halperin of ABC.

http://www.tristram-shandy.com/2006/10/mark-halperin-mary-mapes-of-world-are.html

Hugh Hewitt is full of it, and so is Mark Halperin and the rest of the so-called liberal media (read Eric Alterman's excellent book).

Hewitt seems to think that only uneducated people who live in the woods should be journalists. Halperin seems to think that only the unopinionated (Read: the stupid) can be journalists.

Also, for Mark Halperin of ABC to accept interns from Bob Jones University shows a SERIOUS lack of judgment for two reasons.

First of all, by any objective measure (SATs, quality of faculty, etc.), it's a crappy school, so it's unlikely that you will find good candidates there.

Secondly, students attend it b/c they have an ideological bias and an ax to grind! So he's just guaranteeing that he gets rabidly partisan right-wing interns who want to move ABC to the right. Far cry from his ridiculous views on being totally non-biased. No one from Bob Jones U is going to live up to those standards.

Also, do they believe in evolution? Interracial dating? Equality? Separation of church and state? These are bedrock scientific facts and constitutional values. If you don't believe in them, you aren't qualified to work at ABC or any other serious news organization. PERIOD, FULL STOP.

That's what happens when you throw your lot in with the idiot horde on media bias. You become an idiot appeaser like Mark Halperin.