Media Bias
Instapundit has an uncharacteristacally long post that starts off with a link to Bush's media strategy and morphs into a more general discussion on big media bias. If you read all the links it will take you forever, but it's still worth reading just the stuff that appears in the original post and updates, like this:
ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Julie Cleevely emails:Your reader James Bourgeois has just summed up the media in Britain perfectly. A couple of honourable exceptions, but in the main our media is no more than propaganda and lies. The BBC is a serious problem- Al Jazeera for middle class snobs.Well, I think that these criticisms are a bit strong. Media bias is more like unconscious racism, most of the time, than it is like deliberate misrepresentation. While there are certainly cases of deliberate misrepresentation, most of the time I think it stems from a worldview so deep-rooted that they're unaware of it.
But it's certainly true that the notion of the professional press as a check on the government has no foundation. The Constitution envisions freedom of speech and of the press as checks -- not the institution of the press as one. That's a key difference, I think.