This week Gannett New Jersey reporter Randy Bergmann took up again the question of  liberal bias in the media.  Like many of his colleagues, Bergmann is unconvinced, suggesting rumors of leftist bias are at the very least overblown.  Bergmann's article, "Bias may be in the eye of the beholder," includes the standard arguments, including a comment from Ben Dworkin, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University. "Just because polls show people believe there is a bias doesn't mean there is. Facts don't support that assertion."What does support the notion, I should point out, is Bergmann's article. Though it is at least theoretically a straight news story, and not an opinion piece, it is in fact an argument -- "a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition," as Monty Python has taught us.  The proposition is that liberal bias in the media is nonsense -- nonsense promulgated...(Read Full Post)