Mainstream media's humiliating defeat

"The results last night in New Hampshire represent a humiliating disaster for the mainstream media. The political reporters and editors who have been judging this race for a year have made utter fools of themselves." So says John Podhoretz in this New York Post Online editorial. Podhoretz is harsh but accurate. The media bias we should be concerned about is not left or right wing political bias (both of which do exist) but rather the media's bias towards sensationalism. Certainly some media institutions and editors have a left-wing agenda and others have a right wing agenda, but they agenda that they tend to share is getting market share. This often translates into making dramatic stories where there may be none. We all know this and yet we fall for it every time.