That the resignation of Dan Rather from his CBS News anchor job is a humiliation for the so-called liberal media (SCLM) is taken as a given across the conservative and mainstream press. An unsigned Wall Street Journal editorial crowed of "A Media Watershed," celebrating "the end of the liberal monopoly." In a piece headlined "It Is Watergate," New York Post pundit Eric Fettmann announced, "Those who have long been convinced of a liberal bias in journalism have found their smoking
gun." But it's not merely right-wingers who've jumped on this bandwagon. Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff observed that "one consequence of the CBS debacle here is that it's going to ...