We spend too much time debating bias in journalism. In my experience, most of the failures of our press and broadcast news outlets derive from their corporate nature, from technology and from the quality of practitioners. The conscious slanting of stories is rare.
And news judgments are subjective.
Having said that, consider that on Tuesday the New York Times revealed an intelligence report given the Bush Administration two months before it warred on Iraq, a report warning that the project might produce difficult, unintended consequences. It wasn’t the Times’ lead story, but it was new.
I did not find it in the Albuquerque Journal, though. Later in the day, the Albuquerque Tribune put it on the bottom of page one.
Again, honest news people will differ on what deserves to be published, where, how and at what length. Still, given the Journal’s rightist tilt on its editorial and Op – Ed pages, I thought it worth mentioning.
Also worth mentioning: the Journal ran an Op - Ed piece today by a New Republic editor True, that magazine is not very far left any more, but it isn’t the National Review. Further, the piece said the Bush Administration’s tax policy is unprincipled.