"They Do Not Know It, But They Are Doing It"

Jay Rosen tries to pin down the ideology of the American press corps:

So: liberal or conservative? My answer: it's complicated. One thingwe can definitely say: political journalists are cosmopolitans, andthey will see the world through that lens. They may also stop seeing itas a lens, and that's when it becomes an ideology. But even if we had an x-ray machine that gave us perfect informationabout the beliefs of the journalists who report on politics, theideological drift of the work they...