If you're complaining so much about the liberal establishment, why is it that you keep accepting the liberal establishment's definitions of which media is good and which is not?

Looking at national American newspapers, conservative ones like the WSJ or NY Post rank near the top just like the NYT, WaPo and LA Times, plus some comparatively neutral ones like USA Today. Among cable news networks, Fox News has consistently had the highest viewership for more than 15 years. And, as you might have noticed, Republicans currently hold the presidency and both houses of Congress despite the best efforts of the NYT and WaPo to achieve the opposite - while the president at times seems to base all his policies on what he sees on Fox News on any given day.

So if you want to complain about unfair prejudice in liberal circles against the WSJ or Fox, or the arrogance of the NYT or WaPo, fine. But when the WSJ, Fox and other conservative news sources clearly have the readership/viewership numbers and clearly have the influence over the party in power today, then how does it make sense to keep pretending that 'the media' in general is anti-conservative?

Your point about the entertainment media is a much better one, though I don't think it's particularly relevant to this column on how 'the media' wrote about John McCain. One of the main factors there, I would say, is that most of the American entertainment industry has long been targeting not only the American market but also the European one and to varying extents those of other continents. If I recall correctly, for Disney in particular, 60 percent of their average box office is made outside of the US, and most of that would be in markets that are more liberal by American standards. Hence it makes commercial sense for them to be more liberal than the American average - especially considering how absurdly difficult it would be for any would-be conservative-inspired challenger to reach a scale where they can seriously compete with Disney. Though now you're beginning to see more and more the influence of the Chinese market, which is more conservative in at least some regards though perhaps not in others.