Their perception is their reality. They can't be wrong. who would dare question them?

the silent are speaking(finally)

This explains where our "free" press is at.  I thought that the purpose of a free press was to guard against government/Obama control of our country.  We could have a Hitler figure here repeating the '30's in Germany, but this press would be incapable of seeing it.

 "If liberals didn't live it, it doesn't exist."

 Pickersenior

Are they trying to convince us or themselves?  Nobody who has  above a two digit IQ would doubt that there is a liberal bias to the news.  Their hubris is outstanding. In fact, it rivals obamas.

Bob?..Nope no bias here...Jim?...No sir never have seen any...Gwen?...bias?..from us?..never! Mark..not in forty years!!! David?..well, maybe just a little bias...these people should never be taken seriously on any subject they ever bring up, including the weather.

There's nothing inherently wrong with biases. They're intellectually necessary. If you had to re-think and re-evaluate every component of every situation, you wouldn't have time to act. Knowledge couldn't proceed if you had to deliberate everything from scratch every time. And when we get to complicated political or economic issues, you simply have to take a lot for granted. You have to skip over a lot of arguments and positions whenever you address issues.

When journalists claim that they don't have any biases, obviously they're not being absolutist about it. We all have some. What they're saying is that they feel comfortable with the biases that they have. They're also presuming that their biases reflect reality, that the things they don't bother deliberating are obvious to everyone else. They deny that their biases are created by political ideology or moral positions.

And that's crap.

I have a lot of biases. Because I've studied philosophy, I've tried to go back and evaluate my convictions rationally and explicitly (that's what philosophy is about). But no honest person would brag that they've examined everything. Psychology constantly reveals how many subconscious biases we have that we never chose rationally. Some are genetic, some are developmental, some are cultural. Fairly few are chosen deliberately.

For anyone, never mind a journalist who is surrounded by like-minded colleagues, chasing powerful people who specialize in persuasion and manipulation, to claim that they have no biases is simply a denial of humanity. It's so ridiculous that the moment you hear them say it, the mere fact that they say it reveals how trapped they are within their bubble.

Brooks is unconscious...and has been for years. 

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Why then, David Brooks, were these stories not on page 1 (i.e., why are they not widely known and understood by the pubic):

Bush did not cause the budget surpluses to dissapear from 2001 to 2003. He played a very minor role.

Clinton's complacency in addressing the world HIV/Aids pandemic resulted in millions more deaths - and that Reagan's whatever has no significant place in the discussion.

That among US presidents, Bill Clinton, was the most culpable in the underlying truths in the movie, "Blood Diamond."

That it was Gore, himself, and Democrats that prevented his own late 90's Airport saftey and security Commission reccomendations from being implemented. Would I like to know if increased airport security that was proposed, might have prevented 9/11? Color me silly.

That Clinton and the US turned their backs on the Afghanistan people in their last and most desparate moment of being crushed during the Taliban takeover in the mid-late 90's.

That Nelson Mandela and Pres. Carter condemned Clinton's effort in Kosovo as just as crimminal as what they were trying to stop.

That Clinton/Cuomo's HUD actions in the late 90's and in 2000 were much of the fuel for the housing bubble and the mortgage credit crisis.

That Obama has said that he thought that was a good thing in theory (felt good thing) - but that it didn't work out so well.

That President Bush pulled off the largest reduction in stockpiles of nuclear bombs - but Obama will be praised for doing just a little bit more.

The corruption in the Clinton White House - Riady, Huang, Trie, Lum, Brown, etc.

That Al Gores attorney in Bush v Gore, David Boies, came out defending Libby and attacking Fitzgerald.

That Rev. Wright ranted that Bill Clinton had ____ed the black community just as he had done Monica Lewinski.

That the loudest most public and highest elected official who still stated in Nov. 2005 that it was a fact that Iraq had nuclear bombs, was Democratic Senator and member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Carl Levin.

The Clinton administration did far more for Enron than did the Bush administration.

That Clinton went on record in July 2003, defending Bush on WMD's in Iraq, and on the need for all of us to get together to support the effort to bring a democracy to the people of Iraq.

That William Ayers called for urban warfare on the streets of America.

About Biden's decade's long false accusations that the man involved in his first wife's car accident (resulted in her death and his daughters') had drunk his lunch. It was her fault.  

That Obama stole his first election (by left wing media standards).

That a majority of Americans want serious legal immigration reduction and the illegals kicked out.

That a majority of Americans supported much of Bush's proposals for reforming SS, including voluntary private accounts for a portion of the contributions for those under age 55.

And that a majority of Americans felt that 1.) the stimulus bill had too much spending in it, and 2.) it probably wouldn't actually work so well. 

We all realize that we could do this all day long. (;~/ gary

This bad joke of a show reminds me of the occasional episodes PBS would have in the seventies and eighties - before Rush, before the MRC, before just about all conservative opposition - where the host would read the accusation of media bias and the "jury" round table panel - composed - naturally - of media figures and moderates would "thoughtfully" comment and, voila, in an hour they'd find the media innocent of all charges of bias. They would find the media guilty of lesser charges  - you know, the usual minor things they use to divert the obvious conclusion of actual media bias like "sensationalism", "short attention spans", etc. (shades of Howard Kurtz). It was groan-inducing then - even more so than now -because I didn't know that other people saw the bias I saw. Lke I said at the top...

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.