The NY Times believes that their liberal slant is America, and they can't quite understand why real America is looking for something else.
Fox didn't really start it. The internet did. And Free Republic was the leader in exposing the liberal media.
Unbelievably, MSNBC is starting to get it. The NY Times might eventually, although I doubt it. CNN will go bankrupt before it gets it.
As Dick Morris has pointed out, people who populate the Internet tend to be conservative, in large numbers. Possibly because those using the Internet as a forum for debate are more intelligent...possibly because we've been shut out from debate everywhere else and we have few places left to turn.
But they are *coming*. I am telling you, they are *coming*. Founding DU -- which, btw, I do NOT believe has a growing base, despite the #s they posts (the quality and amount of debate there is more than laugable) -- was a start. Now expect more hit pieces on FR. More hit pieces on Rush and talk radio. More hit pieces on Fox.
Global liberal effort or national liberal effort, this is their strategy.
It would do the NY Times staff a world of good if they occasionally left the Upper West Side of Manhattan and went to dinner parties in Cedar Rapids, IA, Cincinnati, OH, Birmingham, AL, West Memphis, AR, Jackson, MS, Lafayette, LA, Portsmouth, NH, Boise, ID, Moline, IL, Fresno, CA, Winslow, AZ, Winchester, VA, Cobbleskill, NY, etc., etc., and not just amongst demonrat fundraisers in those places either, but a good cross section of the population. They would eat better, too.
It would be similar phenomenon to embedding journalists with the 3rd Infantry Division...