Be More.... Biased.

It used to be that the Mainstream Media tried to keep up the appearance of impartiality; well, at least enough to give them a fig leaf against charges of "media bias." But now, with "The Age of Obama" almost within reach, they have tossed the fig leaf to the winds and apparently couldn't give a rat's ass anymore about impartiality, fairness, or truth. They are on a mission to bring about "The Age," period.

What brought this all into in the open was the Mainstream media's reaction to the revelation that PBS correspondent Gwen Ifill, who is going to moderate the vice-presidential debate tomorrow night, is currently writing a book called, Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. And she ain't exactly happy about Governor Palin criticizing her hero, either.

The Mainstream Media are stunned. Not at Ifill's glaring conflict of interest (she stands to make a pot more money with her pro-Obama book if Obama wins), but that anyone thinks this is a problem. Really.

This issue has roused The Blogfaddah, Glenn Reyonlds, who usually limits his comments to one or two lines, to write at some length (for him) about the current state of the Mainstream Media today, and what we can do about it. Read it all here. (More of Glenn's thoughts are here.)

And PBS? They, too, don't see a problem. So the next time PBS comes rattling their tin-cup-o-guilt your way, I recommend you put you money where your values are, and

Be More.... Stingy.