Surprisingly, the shrill accusation of liberal bias in the media has not been too present on the scene this election cycle. There has been a lot of talk about bias against certain candidates (Hillary Clinton, John Edwards) and towards others (McCain and Obama), but the discussion has by and large stayed away from the divisive claim that all mainstream media is in the hands of the “liberal cultural elite.” In fact, the frothy-mouthed fury that hard right media figures are showing towards John McCain is even making some of these stalwarts toss their support to the democrats; the media that they work so hard to label “liberal” is paradoxically broadcasting more liberal endorsements as a result of their irrational vitriol.

Regardless of the recent silence, however, this lion of an argument is sleeping and will certainly awake the closer we get to November. It’s really a complex topic and I don’t claim to be able to defang it here, but I want to preemptively put a thought about this eternal topic out there before a passing gazelle (or donkey, as the case may be) disturbs the lion’s sleep.

A couple weekends ago I had the privilege to spend an evening chatting with a radio journalist from North Carolina. It was the night of the South Carolina primary, and inevitably the talk turned to politics. The journalist made a couple of comments that I found very interesting: first, he said that liberals were having a hard time making their political talk entertaining and engaging; second, he said that liberal bias in the media is a well-known and indisputable fact. The proof for this claim: surveys show that journalists tend to overwhelming vote democratic on election day. Read the rest of this entry »

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