Thank you, you just nailed it.
Almost without exception, the major news outlets are effectively DNC propaganda mills. They have never been anything else, we've been complaining about media distortions as long as I've been alive and sentient. The surprise isn't that they are biased, the surprise is that anyone is surprised. A Republicans is always in the position of borrowing his enemy's microphone to try and get his message out, he is forever subjected to having his message filtered and shaped and explained by people who hate him and hate his message, and yet after decades of this we have yet to get our own microphone.
This debate was, as you point out, another embarrassing example of Republicans letting Democrats manage their political campaigns. If we do not establish our own press organs, and use them, we will always be beaten in the field of public opinion. When your enemy gets to define you and explain you, the surprise isn't that you lose elections, the surprise is that you have ever won at all.
Great insight. Along the lines of what you suggested, I just found out today about two new conservative media alternatives.
- Qube TV (in response to perceived bias at YouTube)
- Conservapedia (in response to perceived bias at Wikipedia)
I'm going to check them out this weekend.