My view is that in early 2008 the MSM transitioned from “strong liberal bias” to “full supporting member of the regime”
To give you some context: I'm 50 years old, and I've believed the lamestream meda (which I've called them for 20+ years) have been "full supporting members" of the liberal agenda since 1980 when they ran interference for Jimmy Carter and tried making Ronald Reagan look like a nuclear-button-pushing war monger.
So in my eyes, there's no amount of knee-pad-wearing, Obama-arse-kissing, shilling-for-the-liberal-agenda that comes as a surprise to me anymore.