Well, perhaps I didn't phrase my point correctly. What I mean is, media bias has maxxed out; they're not convincing anyone who is not already convinced. They've saturated the market. In fact, they have to keep upping the ante in order to stand still; that's why they are no longer able to hide their bias.
As far as the "corrosive, pervasive betrayal of journalistic principles," well, you can believe in those if you like, and you can also believe in Santa Claus. The media's adherence to "journalistic principles" has always been a figment of their own imaginations, a phrase that they trot out when they give each other awards and when they write obits for each other. The media has always been made up mostly of wannabe hacks, poseurs, and blowhards, and it always will be. I'm talking back to the time of Mark Twain, and probably back to the time of Gutenberg and the printing press. They are a joke; all the more so because they are so unaware of it.
As to their being the "number one enemy of conservative ideals," well, my all my enemies be as moronic and inept.
“What I mean is, media bias has maxxed out; they’re not convincing anyone who is not already convinced.”
Each and every year they are convincing millions of young kids who become voters for the first time...and which takes 10-15 years to beat out of them.
A simple example you can see every day: "The troubled and weakening economy presents more problems for the embattled Bush administration tonight...." A few random figures are presented, with a couple of carefully picked sound bites. Then the story moves on to Iraq.
The idea that the economy is "troubled and weakening" is simply taken for granted, neither supported nor questioned, but simply offered as a fact. That the Bush administration may in fact not be "embattled" at all is not a thought that anyone will glean from this story. But next day, when Obama or Clinton yammers about the "terrible economy" the viewer recalls the story from the night before, and listens...