Gulfstream: 10 November 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/weekinreview/09NUMB.html

On the changing meaning of “media bias”: “In fact, ABC or CBS is far more likely to be described as biased than Mr. Limbaugh—or for that matter, the very liberal Michael Moore. That would have puzzled Harold Ickes, who reserved his most caustic attacks on 1930’s press bias for partisan columnists. But today bias is applied only to those who won’t own up to having an ax to grind.”