"What Liberal Media?"

Find it almost hysterically funny for Fox news and their ilk to rail against the so-called liberal media; on a fundamental, existential level the media, which after all must pay the bills and provide enough remuneration for writers to live on oatmeal and Tang, must hew close to a mainstream view or else risk starvation., thus the Media drumbeat for war in the run up to the Viet Nam imbroglio--oops, meant Iraq but momentarily overcome by deja vu.

So, discerning news consumers must look far afield for heterodox views to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy: the great Orange Satan of Daily Kos which challenges everything, the Stay at Home Feminist Mom who challenges the patriarchy,  and the Field Negro who roots out racism and challenges all Americans to look in the mirror.

If we really had a liberal media, we might read stories about how tax cuts primarily benefit the wealthy:

A progressive tax program is designed to tax people very little as they are starting out and progressively increase their rates as they do better. 

Republican plans seem designed to do exactly the opposite: shift the tax burden off of the wealthy and onto working people. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/07/1229087/-15-things-everyone-would-know-if-there-were-a-liberal-media

ABC spiked stories that conflicted with pro-war propaganda

[On Wednesday night, CNN's Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan's tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters "dropped the ball" during the run-up to war.

But Yellin went much further, revealing that news executives — presumably at ABC News, where she'd worked from July 2003 to August 2007 — actively pushed her not do hard-hitting pieces on the Bush administration. [See update]

"The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings," Yellin said.

"And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives — and I was not at this network at the time — but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time...."

But then a shocked Cooper jumped in, asking, "You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?"

"Not in that exact.... They wouldn't say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces," Yellin said. "They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical, and try to put on pieces that were more positive. Yes, that was my experience."]

WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? THE TRUTH ABOUT BIAS AND THE NEWS