What Liberal Media Bias?

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post certainly thinks it's all a big myth

MILBANK: Well, I wouldn't say they've gotten a small amount of coverage. On the other hand, I think the First Amendment doesn't discriminate, and Sinclair should be absolutely free to do what they're doing.

The bigger scandal at Sinclair is that they wouldn't run Ted Koppel's "Nightline" when he read out the names of soldiers killed in Iraq. So they're not -- they're not being fair here. But absolutely...

KURTZ: And their executives have contributed a fair amount of money to Bush and the Republicans. So they've got a fairness issue here. MILBANK: If nothing else, this should dispel the notion of the liberal media, when you have Sinclair, when you have "The New York Post," when you have "The Wall Street Journal" editorial page, when you have "The Washington Times" and when you have a towering giant like Laura Ingraham.

Well now, let's take a look at the top twenty U.S. newspapers by paid subcription

The Wall Street Journal	1,752,693	(m)
USA Today	1,671,539	(m)
The New York Times	1,086,293	(m)
Los Angeles Times	1,078,186	(m)
The Washington Post	763,305	(m)
Daily News, New York	701,831	(m)
Chicago Tribune	657,690	(m)
Newsday	574,941	(m)
Houston Chronicle	542,414	(m)
The Dallas Morning News	490,249	(m)
Chicago Sun-Times	468,170	(m)
The Boston Globe	462,850	(m)
San Francisco Chronicle	456,742	(m)
New York Post	438,158	(m)
The Arizona Republic	433,296	(m)
The Star-Ledger, Newark	407,129	(m)
The Philadelphia Inquirer	399,339	(m)
Denver Rocky Mountain News	396,114	(m)
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland	386,312	(m)
The San Diego Union-Tribune	376,604	(m)

Of the top 5 papers, all but the Wall Street Journal are liberal.

The New York Post is 14, and the Washington Times does not even make the list. Funny how these papers rile up the left so much. Maybe because they have a habit of exposing the truth?

If we take a look at TV and Cable news, we have Fox News in the conservartive column. But CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN? Hopelessly liberal. And don't get me started on Reuters or the BBC(check my site later for an article on them.)

Update

My post on the BBC's wonderful new "documentary" is up. Just be sure you're able to stifle your scream before you read it.

I've also got a post up on a conversation on between CNN's Howard Kurtz and Newsweek's Evan Thomas that you won't want to miss.