Book shows the real media bias is conservative.
Bob Dole made a litany of it during the last presidential campaign, and right-wingers such as Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy hammer away at the same theme, complaining that our major newspapers and TV and radio networks are guilty of slanting the news to suit their political agendas. But while it's easy to dismiss the likes of Dole, Limbaugh and Liddy as hypocrites or windbags, you have to give them credit when they hit the mark. And as a new book titled Wizards of Media Oz demonstrates, Bob, Rush and the G-man are absolutely right. The prominence of voices such as Limbaugh's and Liddy's on talk radio networks is itself one sign of the media's rightward tilt. As Solomon and Cohen point out, the nation's airwaves are full of right-wing pundits who think nothing of lying, fomenting hatred for the government, or even, as in Liddy's case, offering advice on how best to shoot a federal official.