A Very Bad Week For "Liberal Media" Critics Indeed!
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer goes easy on his former boss but occasionally knocks reporters in "Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House," out March 1. Fleischer, who now lives in New York, said his memoir is "about how the news gets made and how it gets covered." He said he explores "the dynamic between a free press and a sometimes-reluctant-to-share White House.""My conclusion is that the press is biased -- biased in favor of conflict," Fleischer said. "There is an ideological element -- a subtle bias on policy issues, particularly on social policy issues, that favors Democrats more than Republicans. But that bias is secondary. Conflict comes first, regardless of whether the press is covering a Democrat or a Republican."
So Fleischer is only partially paranoid ... but still more correct than most conservative cranks on this issue.