Someone wrote a comment on a previous post that asked, "If the (liberal) media
is so powerful, how did John Kerry and Al Gore not get elected?"

The
reason is that since the 2004 Bush win, the media has increasingly
decided that it will allow itself to be as biased as necessary to get
results it wants.

You protest, "But there is no one media." In
fact, there is. Most people enter the field of journalism because they
"want to make a difference" (as defined in liberals' terms), but in
journalism school were taught that they need to hide their biases.
However, at recent journalist conventions, online discussion groups,
and even in bellwether journalism schools such as U.C. Berkeley,
journalists are increasingly told they can be
biased, invoking flimsy (to me, frightening) rationales such as "bias
is inevitable so stop trying to hide it" or "Liberal views are the
righteous ones, so it's ethical to express your biases."

Thus,
ever more journalists feel justified in doing what they originally
wanted to do: Instead of reporting all sides of an issue fairly, to
manipulate the public into believing what they believe. So now, with
people like Keith Obermann on MSNBC and most commentators and writers
in the New York Times and CNN
leading the way, the media's coverage of the 2008 presidential election
has been and will ever more be Leftist propaganda.

As a member
of the media, I get to hear it all--my colleagues privately brag about
the 1,000 subtle ways they attempt to manipulate so subtly as to be
undetectable by an unsuspecting public. For example, whenever a
Republican makes an assertion, the media describes it as "hammering," "an attack,"
"a salvo," etc. Yet if a Democrat makes an assertion, it's "an idea," a "point," a
'response," etc.

So, yes, I am convinced that the mainstream
media indeed has a definite and growing Leftist bias and will do what it takes to
manipulate the public into believing, for example, that a liberal
should be president, illegals should be given amnesty, national health
care should be enacted no matter what toll it takes on now-insured
people, and even more resources should be redistributed to women and
minorities, without regard to merit.