He should have saved his the media aren't liberal screed for the latest Pew report. As Ed Morrissey points out, the latest poll blows the idea that the media are in the tank for Republicans rather easily.
According to the Pew study:
On the Republican side, John McCain, the candidate who quickly clinched his party’s nomination, has had a harder time controlling his message in the press. Fully 57% of the narratives studied about him were critical in nature(.) (Emphasis mine)
More importantly, as Ed says, Newsbusters has the evidence to disprove today's meme that corporate executives pressured MSM types to support the Iraq War. Sadly for them, their own archives prove otherwise.
Contrary to prevailing liberal mythology, all three networks (especially ABC) tilted their pre-war news in favor of Bush administration opponents. Covering the congressional debate over using force, for example, the networks gave a majority of soundbites (59%) to the losing anti-war side. Reporters also sanitized the "peace" movement, masking the radical affiliations of left-wing organizers while showcasing more sympathetic "middle class" demonstrators.
Journalists are still trying to plead that they aren't liberals and that, even if they are, it doesn't affect their reporting. If anything, they try much harder to put conservative slant into their stories! Does anyone believe such drivel?
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