State workers are happy to oblige, thereby expanding their own power and influence. And the media have their role to play. While doing a good job at covering election races, the media remain largely uncritical of bureaucracy and special interests. In areas such as health, welfare, and environmental policy, supposedly skeptical journalists do little more than paraphrase government press releases. This comes in addition to their inherent bias.
Most reporters are big-government liberals, as every survey on the subject has confirmed.
The liberal bias emerges in code language. California's capital is a one-newspaper town, and that paper, the thin but politically correct Sacramento Bee , is the voice of the state's government establishment. The Bee often reads like a Democrat Party newsletter. Together the bureaucracies, special interests, and media constitute a kind of unelected one-party state. As politicians and voters alike have learned, a three-stranded cord is not easily broken, not even by the power of the ballot box.