[eric_da_grate]

I heard Halperin on Hugh Hewitt's Show. He's the political editor for ABC NEWS. He's a sober liberal who can't seem to live with the double-standard hypocrisy of his own business anymore. It's well-past midnight on that.

He recognizes the bias and admits that the eternal free pass for Democrats has much more to do with the party's intellectual laziness than meets the eye.

It all sounds good until Hewitt pressed him on his voting history. Halperin suggested that he's doing the country a huge favor by keeping his personal politics very personal. He seems to think that ABC NEWS is risking its glorious, time-honored credibilty...or some such thing.

Don't bother asking him about his beliefs on social issues, either. He's agnostic on that, too.

It's all for our own good.

[sphinx]

"There isn't anybody, including in the Bush administration, who believes that Kerry meant to insult the soldiers in Iraq with his clumsy joke."

Of course Kerry didn't mean to insult the troops. There were no troops present at his speech. He would never have said such a thing in their presence ... just as he and Theresa make sure the servants are out of earshot before they joke about the hired help or an old time racist southern democrat -- Al Gore, Sr., perhaps -- would never make Sambo jokes to the maid's face.

Kerry was just patronizing some college students with some behind-their-backs humor at the expense of social inferiors. How was he to know the press would pick it up? After all, it's a reasonably fair assumption that most of the press shares his social prejudices. Somehow a ringer got in. Could've happened to anyone. Just bad luck.

[preacher]

I have been upset about the Liberal bias in the MSM since I became politically aware in the early 1960s. I would love to believe that this Liberal bias is why the MSM is in decline. I'm sure this is a factor but the advent of alternatives is, I feel, more the reason.

A large number percentage of people are not interested in news at all. It used to be ABCCBSNBC news & nothing else. They now have cable & satellite TV.

For those interested in the news the MSM still dominates although there are now alternatives, Fox News & the internet. Fox News in particular drives Liberals nuts because they don't want anything conservative available to the masses.

[A. Pole]

a whopping 77 percent of midterm election coverage by the Big Three newscasts (ABC, CBS, NBC) was favorable to Democrats, while only 12 percent was favorable to Republicans. The two stories are not unrelated.

Internet is the real reason for the decline of newspapers and TV.