"An ongoing information revolution is taking place, and who can predict where it will be next year, let alone five years from now?" writes Roger L. Simon:
Speaking "poisonally," I can find no major media outlet on any side of the political spectrum that reflects my views (some blogs come close). I am someone who usually agrees with Bush on the War on Terror, but is way to the left of Kerry's stand (assuming he has one) on Gay Marriage. What major newspaper or television network reflects that bias? None that I know. And although I am a niche, I suspect I am not that small a niche. Millions may think like me. And I also suspect those numbers are growing.
Journalism is created by biased creatures -- humans. One of the advances in knowledge these days is that most of us finally realize institutions like The New York Times are not ex cathedra authorities, but just somebody's idea of the truth -- ultimately the publisher's.
'Course we've known that for some time now, having long ago -- in the Dark Ages before the internet, even -- canceled our NYT subscription in disgust. The only one we still pay for nowadays is the Wall Street Journal, online version. But it's good to know that a formerly leftish writer of Roger L. Simon's top-notch caliber finally gets it. As he says, specificallly re the NYT front-page "news":
It's all opinion.
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