Lies, Damned Lies, and JournalismBy Larry SchweikartFrontPageMagazine.com | July 17, 2002 In the 1970s or 1980s, a typical exchange over liberal media bias went something like this:CONSERVATIVE: "The media is biased." JOURNALIST: "No, it's not."CONSERVATIVE: "Yes, it is."While conservatives could cite anecdotal evidence as to liberal bias in the media, journalism's defenders always replied that such examples did not mean anything There was, as Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis used to say, "no pwoof." In the 1980s, this began to change, albeit slowly. A few surveys---often done by the Media Research Center (MRC)---provided some astounding numbers, such as the fact that...