First, purge all the liberals...

By Libby

I blogged about MSNBC's "investigative" report on so-called liberal bias at the Detroit News, but I assume you saw the hit piece on the alleged "proof" that the media really is liberal, based on a tiny sample of political donations by reporters who largely don't even cover politics. It also failed to emphasize that the handful of GOP donors far outspent the sum total of the so-called liberal donors.

I'm wondering now, having seen in the aftermath of the piece that three donors to Democratic candidates have been fired, whether the whole purpose of the report wasn't really to manufacture an excuse to purge anyone who privately holds liberal views from the media's ranks. I see nothing in the article to suggest the deep pocket GOP donors, who hold media positions of far greater influence, are going to suffer similar retribution.

As I said at the DetNews, reporter's donations don't amount to spit in the ocean if you want to gauge media bias. It's the owners who hold the power to slant coverage and all six or seven of them are the deepest pocket supporters of the neo-conservatives. This is beginning to look like a owner's plot to turn the entire major media into one big wingnut mouthpiece.