HOROWITZ WATCH: I don't visit David Horowitz's Frontpagemag as often as I used to, because I find the tone much too harsh sometimes. But there is an absolutely harrowing entry on Horowitz's blog on an outrageous example of anti-Israel bias in the Los Angeles Times. Please, read it to the end, and keep the memory of the bravery of Noam Apter in your mind.

I also liked these comments from another post in regards to the question of media bias:

Liberals still don't get it. There's no big liberal audience for liberal talk show hosts because they control taxpayer funded NPR and all the metropolitan newspapers; or for liberal cable, because they control the networks and PBS with ten times the audience; or for liberal think tanks, because universities are the liberal think tanks.

(And of course there's Brookings, the Progressive Policy Institute and dozens of other liberal 501(c)3s on top of the trillion dollar university system).

In last Sunday's LA Times, Neil Gabler, professor at the Annenberg School of Journalism at USC pretended to be unable to detect liberal bias in the media, including leftwing papers like the one he was writing in. Perhaps that's because he also failed to notice that the Annenberg School is run by a former Clinton Administration official and -- like journalism schools across the country -- its faculty is one hundred percent leftwing. People who call themselves liberals and democrats yet participate and run a system that ruthlessly excludes any view that is not on the left are probably incapable of making sensible comments about the political world we live in anyway.

Again, it's a bit screedy, but there's a grain of truth in there about the liberal cocoon that surrounds so many of those involved in the highest levels of academia and the media.