[RandyRep]

Bartley doesn't go far enough in this article.

He should observe that ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN and NPR use the NYTimes and WashPost as their guiding lights - the editorial views of all of these are basically the same, and they share writers, reporters, producers, etc among themselves.

We will have "free" and "objective" journalism when we have diversity of opinion, not uniformity of opinion for our broadcast news. At present, we have to rely on talk radio and Fox News (to some extent) to hear differing views.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I frankly doubt that Mr. Keller will succeed in restoring objectivity or balance to the Times newsroom. Former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal, actually a conservative, had a hard enough time.

Fox News is "Fair and Balanced," meaning that it includes the liberal POV. But the liberal POV is heavily skewed toward the assumption that it is easy to identify, and should be easy to implement, improvements to American culture and tradition. The fatuous nature of that proposition makes the liberal POV a poor predictor of the effects of its proposals.

Therefore even Fox News is predictably degraded by the respect it pays to liberalism.