Is America's left-wing media elite about to suffer the fate of the Communist Party of the old Soviet Union? I ask this question because my weekend reading (Dimitri Volkogonov's history of the Soviet leadership, "Anatomy of An Empire," and Mark Mathis' tome on the U.S. media, "Feeding the Media Beast") raised some interesting parallels between the Soviet leadership and the current structure of the U.S. news media. The similarities between Volkogonov's description of the behavior of the Soviet party leaders and recent revelations by Mathis and others about the thought processes, biases, behaviors and prejudices of American reporters are...