Matt, I'll do you one better - the very fact that the mainsteam corporate media rolled over and let Bush get away with all he's gotten away with in the last 4 years pretty much proves to me that it's at least in bed with him. 

The outting of undercover CIA Agent Valerie Plame by someone in the administration is, by the definition set by Bush I, TREASON, and that alone should have shut down the administration, but how much time does that get on the mainstream corporate whore news?

And yet we devoted a year to a blow-job.  I don't know... maybe the audience does decide, and maybe America is more interested in Oral Sex than they are in risking National Security to get revenge on a guy's wife.  Bleh...

I like humor, I like the comedians at fox, I like the comical perception that US media is liberal, I like writing fun joke attacks on comics like Ann what’s her name. It is important to have fun with such disturbing realities otherwise it would be hard to get out of bed. I look at fox as a good snl skit. So with all due respect, James I decline your invitation to treat fox “news" with anything but disturbed amusement. You are more than welcome to say Clinton News Network when referring to any channel you want.

Eric Kleefeld wrote:   If I were to completely fabricate quotes I would be fired instantly, and shame on any paper that would ever hire me after that.

Took the Times awhile to do this -the old standard bearer of news.  They didn't even do cursory checks of some of their story.

Then there is the Insider/60 minutes thing.

The CBS thing which Rather stonewalled for a long time and did not get fired/reprimanded.

and I believe CNN had some bogus reports itself. 

Well, the networks were all there was forvever.  Then CNN came along and had a similar problem/

But the biggest problem is if you hire 80% democrats, you are going to get slanted news. 

Pauline Kael "I can't understand how Nixon won. I don't know anybody who voted for him." In his huge 1972 landslided

Work with all liberals, live around all liberals, talk and be friends with all liberals

and you won't see the bias in front of your face, and it won't occur to you to look at a different point of view/pursue certain stories.

James C. Taylor wrote: I would have thought specifying Frank would have been construed as an attack.  I sit corrected.

Not at all, as long as you weren't actually attacking him.  If you ask someone to refrain from a certain term so that the discourse can remain civil, I wouldn't ever see that as an attack.  FWIW, I also think name-calling in any debate makes it such that the debate ceases to exist.  Although I may not agree with you, I wouldn't go so far as to sling names and make slanderous attacks.  At that point, I'd just bow out.

Rob, I understand your point, but your logic goes wrong in a few spots - one, Paulene Kael was a film critic, not a reporter.  She wasn't even a good critic - she didn't like Welles!  She championed Last Tango In Paris!  Bleh!

Second, ok - so you don't see the liberal bias right in front of you... then why is it so glaringly obvious on FOX?  I mean, not just in comparison to the Corporate Whore News, I mean, just on their own, FOX shamlessly nurses at the teat of the GOP.   They stay firmly in lock-step, while the Corporate Whore News networks go whatever way the wind blows, or the Corporate Dollars lead them.