Responding to Hieger's blog regarding my blog:
Let me stress this point: Toranto was joking. He doesn't really believe in a conspiracy theory that says the Times is printing this column on its own bias during the Democratic convention so that it'll get lost in all the hub-bub.
And for the record, I don't think think it was a conspiracy, either.
Also for the record, I don't think the Wall Street Journal openly claims it is in cahoots with the Bush administration or that the paper even favors Bush. Its editorial page is obviously conservative and usually favors Bush policies, but the rest of the paper doesn't openly claim to have an agenda.
The Journal isn't on the same list of conservative media that liberals are constantly critical of -- The Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News. Those media are openly conservative (with the exception of Fox, which does a
bad job hiding its biases).
I also don't think the issue of bias in the media is pointless. I think it's extremely important. I honestly don't see how we can choose to not even discuss it.
Finally, the New York Times doesn't openly claim to be liberal. That's why the ombudsman column was kind of interesting -- not earthshattering, but interesting. If you read the column, you'll see that the Times' publisher refuses to call the paper liberal, but instead says it's just "urban."
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