I have a Liberal Bias

I have a liberal bias. I’m like the media… No. But don’t take my word, which is of the sad minority, for it. Levar Burton is nowhere to be found in the forthcoming excerpt, sorry. Instead I shall provide this excerpt from a Salon.com article, of course, written by David Brock.

Ironically, though not coincidentally, this radical transformation of the media has been obscured by conservative charges of “liberal media bias” that are believed by the vast majority of the public, including about half of Democrats. I’m all too familiar with the claim. From my very first days at the Washington Times, I was schooled to invoke “liberal bias” to deflect attention from my own biases and journalistic lapses and as a rationale to justify my presence in the mainstream media conversation in the name of providing “balance” or “the other side.” We sold a lot of books and magazines and commanded lavish attention for our propaganda outside the right wing by using this cover story. Whole article here Remember the whole free day pass thing.

Anyway in this article, and I assume in his book, Brock, a former right-wing slanderer himself, exposes the sadness that is the right. Good read. Though I’m sure you won’t believe it and will denounce this as “liberal” trash. What can I say? I’m biased. And leaving.
But what concerns me most about the whole “thing,” if it may be referred to as such, is that it has ceased to become political, as it pertains to a literal sense of the first definition entry. Instead it has become a factional championing of definitive answers, solutions and feelings. I don’t see things changing anytime soon either, especially in light of the relational difficulties between sides even through/after 9/11. Big sigh.