I see this political bias (among other factors) causing a rapid fragementation of the news media into a wide spectrum of media outlets on TV, radio, print, and the internet covering the entire political spectrum. The four big liberal networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN) will continue to decline and lose viewers are they become left-wing media along with the NY Times and Wash Post. Center-left news media will evolve, along with an attempt at unbiased centrist media, and then you'll have center-right news media with Fox News and voices like Hugh Hewitt and Michal Medved. New cable channels, radio shows like Rush Limbaugh, and numerous websites will broadcast to people who are staunch conservatives. The liberal networks and the AP don't understand it yet, but their market has already fragmented and they've already lost half of their audience with another 25% about to be lost in the next ten years. I'm ready for more professionally written conservative websites right now....anything but the AP and its obvious left-wing slant.
"I'm starting to think there are a lot of little egomaniacs in the AP who don't want to be just journalists and writers, but instead they want to be kingmakers and big-time political players."
You don't seriously believe anyone who's entered journalism since Watergate lacks a huge ego, do you? Every last one of them is dying to be the next one to crucify a Republican President. Guilty? Doesn't matter. Just gimme the headlines and the bylines.