[pollyannaish]

Actually no. I think that most journalists in Washington have absolutely NO CLUE that they are so intensely biased.

I started out a journalism major in college. I can not tell you how many people looked me straight in the eye and said—"I want to be an objective journalist so that I can change the world." Or words to that effect. I would just shake my head in disbelief. Ironically, I was politically liberal then, but I will always believe that was the beginning of my awakening, so to speak.

After reading Bernie Goldberg's Bias and Arrogance, it solidified my opinion that most of them think they ARE being fair and balanced. Dan Rather still believes himself to be on the same page as the majority of Americans. They still believe they speak for the average joe.

Honestly, that is the problem and why the state of American Journalism is so hard to change. Because they can be caught red handed—and they just don't see it. They are in complete denial, and while some do have openly partisan leanings, most of them do not think they do.

There are three things I know to be absolute facts about most mainstream journalists: They are intensely arrogant, completely out of touch, and fundamentally lazy. That is what makes them so insidious—and WORSE than people with a naked agenda.

[little jeremiah]

In that case they are psychotic and need to be put away. They are criminally insane. Liberalism is a mental illness, and when acted upon, criminal insanity.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Actually no. I think that most journalists in Washington have absolutely NO CLUE that they are so intensely biased.

And there we have tragedy of the situation.

Journalists are taught that to be a journalist, they have to be completely non-bias, to the point of having no emotional attachments to that which they are reporting on.

To the journalists, to have bias is the moment they stop being 'journalists'.

But they forgot that there can be more than two points of view on a subject and that they as journalists are reporting from a bias third point of view.

And their arrogance blinds them from admitting their bias.

[roses of sharon]

LOL, they definitely have a clue, it's their job, they are political operatives.

And have been for at least 30 years.

[Gondring]

Actually no. I think that most journalists in Washington have absolutely NO CLUE that they are so intensely biased.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! As a former newspaper editor, I can confirm this is very true. Many of the staff mean well, but it's difficult to recruit high-quality staff when the salaries in journalism are so low.