What a long, sad trip it's been

The problem is that no one seems to know what the news is...or rather, they're afraid to report the real news. As Stephen Colbert once said, "reality has a well-known liberal bias." In order to report reality, the media would constantly have to refute conservative falsehoods...and then be accused of being too liberal. It is funny though, that it is always a problem to be seen as too liberal, but there is never anything wrong with being seen as too conservative. In fact, it seems that if you're a reporter, you gain legitimacy by being more and more conservative, as if liberalism were somehow the American default setting which must be struggled against by the thoughtful few. My God, what a mess.