NY Times Bias WatchOur friend
Lorie Byrd has a
piece in the Am Spec today, on when she'll believe that the media is not biased towards liberalism.
One of my favorite quick ways to check is the NY Times search engine. For example, the phrase
"liberal Republican" pops up 75 times in the NY Times since 1996. But the phrase "conservative Democrat" comes almost twice as often, with 148 sightings in the same time frame.
Or take the moderate label. "Moderate Republican" shows up 618 times in the NY Times database since 1996, while "moderate Democrat" appears 149 times. Get it? As Ann Coulter wrote, Democrats don't require the "good doggie" label anywhere near as often.
Same with "liberal Democrat", which appears 448 times, versus "conservative Republican", which popped up 909 times.