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Actually no. I think that most journalists in Washington have absolutely NO CLUE that they are so intensely biased.

I started out a journalism major in college. I can not tell you how many people looked me straight in the eye and said—"I want to be an objective journalist so that I can change the world." Or words to that effect. I would just shake my head in disbelief. Ironically, I was politically liberal then, but I will always believe that was the beginning of my awakening, so to speak.

After reading Bernie Goldberg's Bias and Arrogance, it solidified my opinion that most of them think they ARE being fair and balanced. Dan Rather still believes himself to be on the same page as the majority of Americans. They still believe they speak for the average joe.

Honestly, that is the problem and why the state of American Journalism is so hard to change. Because they can be caught red handed—and they just don't see it. They are in complete denial, and while some do have openly partisan leanings, most of them do not think they do.

There are three things I know to be absolute facts about most mainstream journalists: They are intensely arrogant, completely out of touch, and fundamentally lazy. That is what makes them so insidious—and WORSE than people with a naked agenda.