Just because mainstream news sources won't function as a communication organ of your ideology doesn't mean they have a <i>liberal bias</i>.<p>How does the "Mainstream Media" tilt left when<p>1) Fox News is a member of the MSM.  It's not an underdog either: it's an industry leader. The highest rated cable news network, by far, is Fox News, often beating MSNBC+CNN  combined- unless there's a rare event like the recent earthquake, at which point CNN only slightly trails Fox.<p>2) The allegedly liberal New York Times and NPR refuse to use words like "torture" because, according to their editors, "torture" is too political of a word, and instead use the newspeakesque "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques".<p>3) The media's wholesale embrace of the Iraq war in 2002/2003/2004, before it became unquestionably a quagmire 2005.  This was true for even the New York Times, which basically gave the Iraq War the Grey Lady's stamp of approval.<p>4) Most newspaper Op-Eds are conservative, even in local papers that have no national coverage.<p>5) The largest Newspaper in circulation ATM is the Wall Street Journal, another conservative paper owned by News Corp.<p>6) Advancement of the "Real American" narrative which states that those who do not appreciate people like Sarah Palin aren't "Real Americans".  Coincidentally women and minorities don't like Sarah Palin, but I'm sure this was in no way a slight against <i>those</i> people but instead the invisible "elites" who apparently ruin everything for everyone ever in the realm of politics.<p>The fact of the matter is, most of this so-called "liberal" media are really just star-fuckers, who enjoy bootlicking those in power.  Today, it's the Democrats, yesterday it was the Republicans.<p>Here's a good example of what I'm talking about:
"...everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs..." -- Chris Mathews, on Hardball, November 28th 2005.<p>From the same guy who gets tingly about Barack Obama.