Similarly, Dan Rather may or may not be, but just catching him giving a speech at a Democratic fund-raiser doesn't seal the case one way or the other. To show bias, you have to do the hard work of actually evaluating an individual journalist's work. Well, conservatives know that their attacks hit their target. No one likes to be criticized. So if Goldberg and company scream liberal bias enough, journalists will invariably begin to second guess themselves.
Recent examples are myriad.
Or compare the press' attacks on Al Gore when he screwed up a few details in the debates to the way the press barely mentioned George W. Bush's misrepresentation of his own campaign proposals. Relativists miss these complexities, because they avoid actually evaluating journalists' records to gauge the levels and directions of bias. But they can't say how much, and they can't explain why. This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author.