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Big dumb lie: journalists who insist there is no media bias problem are just cutting themselves off from the American public.

The American Enterprise

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If you listen to a growing chorus of liberals and leftists, you might think that one of America's biggest problems today is, hold onto your hats, "conservative media bias." When Al Gore announced he wouldn't run for President, he complained about the right-wing media. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is so convinced that the media are conservative he always puts "liberal media" in quotation marks to convey its mythical, unicorn-like quality. "Sooner or later, I think we're all going to have to acknowledge that the myth of the liberal bias in the press is just that, it's a myth," insists Jack White of Time magazine. Yes indeed, assures Washington Post columnist E. J. ...

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