The specter of a liberal media bias sprang forth into popularculture with Spiro Agnew's paranoid alliterative defense of theVietnam War back in 1969.

(This origin story, of course, skips past the blatant,muckraking primordial ooze from which the entire daily newspaperbusiness emerged in this country back in the early 1900s. So, inthat sense, the chicken came first: with the media borne out ofbias.)

I've spoken at length in print, online and in person about“media bias,” and how overblown I think that liberal bogeymanis.

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