Back in May of 2004, in the midst of the bruising election year (and even before the Swift Vets blockade, Ra^therGate, NYTRoGate, etc.), I submitted a piece for Tech Central Station titled, "Welcome to the Post-Bias Media", focusing on Bernard Goldberg's landmark first book on media bias. In it, I wrote:

Another strange thing has started happening as well -- in the past, media elites denounced any claims of a liberal bias in the news with a shrug and a who, us? Were not liberals. Were not leftwing. Were objective and neutral. No biases here! More and more, as well shortly see, the media are going on the record (Brock, Gore and Franken, notwithstanding) that it leans pretty heavily towards the left.

And even prior to that, I collected a list of journalists willing to on the record to admit their bias. And even the Columbia Journalism School noted, "U.S. media coverage of last year’s election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger John Kerry".

Today, Pajamas looks at those whacky neocons at UCLA and their crazy rightwing theories:

Scientists discover liberal media bias on Mars!

Or so it would seem, to judge by the lack of a mainstream media reaction to a UCLA study which is the first to use quantifiable measures to determine bias. Larry Kudlow blogs, "According to the study, which covered ten years worth of news stories, eighteen of the twenty major news outlets scored left of center. That’s a solid 90 percent for those of you keeping score."

Interestingly enough, the study also concluded that "While the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than the New York Times." And "The Drudge Report, while it might have a right wing reputation, leans left."

Only Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Post appeared to be right of center.

Rob at Say Anything writes, "What always amazes me most about liberal media bias is not the fact that it exists, but the fact that so many people deny that it exists in the face of overwhelming amounts of evidence which suggests that it does."

Just don't look for the story on Yahoo! news, the BBC or CNN, because as of this morning, a search for "media bias" turned up no references to the UCLA study.

Or as I wrote a couple of nights after the election:

the real loser of the election wasn't the Democratic party. America is built on a two party system. Republicans reconstituted themselves into a more conservative party after Barry Goldwater took one for the team after JFK's assassination made LBJ's election all but inevitable in '64. There's no reason why the Democrats can't go through a bit--well, hopefully a lot--of analysis and see why they've lost the House and Senate for a decade (except during Jumpin' Jim Jeffords' 15 minutes of fame), and will be out of the White House for at least virtually all of this decade.

No, the real losers are the legacy media: the TV networks and newspapers.

And speaking of which, the Media Research Center has released their "The 18th Annual Awards For The Year’s Worst Reporting Released". Two guesses as to who won "Quote of the Year".

Update: Hey, no bias here!