Liberal Media?

Krugman, my favorite columnist, has a column today about how the American media has become very pro-U.S. Government. He points out that:

A funny thing happened during the Iraq war: many Americans turned to the BBC for their TV news. They were looking for an alternative point of view ? something they couldn’t find on domestic networks, which, in the words of the BBC’s director general, “wrapped themselves in the American flag and substituted patriotism for impartiality.”

His point was that a privately owned news organization can often be more likely to repeat the state line than a state owned news organization such as the BBC.

I am just glad someone in our mainstream media is actually pointing out how we are getting very different news from people abroad (although to be fair the Times is doing a much better job than many others). I heard a story (I think it was on NPR, but I am not sure) about how different the content of CNN America is from CNN International. The U.S. version is much more pro-administration and pro-war where the International version is more skeptical.

Tom Tomorrowalso has a comic about media bias.

I hope that we can finally put this Liberal media myth to rest.