The incomparable Bob Somerby should always be consulted when thinking about a meta-story about media bias, and the Daily Howler seldom disappoints.
For forty-plus years, they've yelled "liberal bias"--going all the way back to a time when the complaint might have been justified (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 2/14/03). And now, at long last, just this week, Mike Allen has written a "news report" so perfectly awful that we can finally, definitively say it--after reading Allen's "news report," you'd really have to be out of your mind to believe in that tired old cry.Somerby was writing about the Washington Post's reporting on Al Gore's Inconveniet Truth, but he certainly could have been writing about the New York Times and the NSA wiretapping scandal and the revelation that the Times knew about the program before the last presidential election, and sat on the story.
There is "bias" in the media -- but I wouldn't call it "liberal." It's not necessarily conservative either. There's an institutional bias in favor of covering the publication's own ass.