"Too many newspapers have drifted to the left in all aspects of their coverage, well beyond the editorial page and the political news," writes Peter Ross in US News. " Even on the op-ed pages, where the ideological split is better balanced, most of the columns – written by those on the left and those on the right – take as their subject matter what is wrong with the GOP, conservatives and the free-market. For all the talk of diversity in the nation's newsrooms, backed by the professional associations affiliated with the trade, the one area in which the monolith still stands unchanged is ideology, with editors and reporters operating off a fairly standard set of assumptions about the world that influence their selection of stories and the way in which they are covered." Read it all [BJS]
