The left edge of the road...

...is not the center line. That's true, and it seems to be the thesis of the book Liberal Media Distorts News Bias. But what doesn't seem to be acknowledged is that the location of the center line can change with time and experience. For example, approval of gay marriage is pretty rapidly becoming the center-line opinion. For an opposite example, the demand for control of the Mexican border is becoming more and more widely shared.

Most people carry around a mixed bag of political opinions that are not consistently left or right, or even completely consistent with each other. The legacy media, though, doesn't operate that way; it's highly committed to promoting a consistently leftwing agenda, straight across the board. They pose as news organizations, but they have a deeper commitment to pushing public opinion, and therefore the country, to the left. Their desire to re-position the center line has become more and more blatantly obvious. As a result, they have gradually squandered whatever credibility they once had. Fortunately, they are of rapidly declining importance as sources of information, as their viewer and readership numbers clearly show. I doubt they will ever again be able to push a presidential election like they did in getting Obama into office.

Byron