What Liberal Media?

“…from the front lines of the American Liberal Media Expeditionary Force’s campaign to rout the forces of conservatism:

“CNN, which right-wingers have been known to call the ‘Clinton News Network,’ chooses as its lead commentator for George W. Bush’s spring 2002 Middle East policy speech . . . Pat Robertson.

“On the crucial Manhattan front, New York magazine fields as its sole national correspondent one of the editors of The Weekly Standard; the New York Observer carries a regular column by a National Review editor; rabid liberal-hater Michael Kelly leaves his watch as The New Yorker’s Washington columnist to take over the ‘liberal’ New Republic, then the ‘liberal’ Atlantic, now columnizing in the ‘liberal’ Washington Post - joined there by conservatives George Will, Robert Novak, Charles Krauthammer, and a guest battalion sermonizing on the wisdom of war with Iraq.

“Rock-and-decadence Rolling Stone holds down the culture-war front with conservatives P.J. O’Rourke and Tom Wolfe.

“In the Internet theater, genuinely liberal Salon includes among its cadre of columnists David Horowitz and Andrew Sullivan. Slate recruits a Weekly Standard editor as a regular, and even features articles by Charles Murray.

“On the networks: NBC uses Rush Limbaugh as an election analyst in 2002, Robert Bork as a commentator during the Clinton impeachment (ABC chooses William Bennett), and CBS rewards correspondent Bernard Goldberg for publishing an anti-CBS op-ed screed by moving him to a cushy job with better benefits.

With friends like these, my fellow liberals, who needs enemies? …” - Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2003, Book Reviews

So much for the claims of a “liberal” news media, eh?