The specter of a liberal media bias sprang forth into popular culture with Spiro Agnew's paranoid alliterative defense of the Vietnam War back in 1969.

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

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

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