Eric Alterman has written a book entitled "What Liberal Media?" which attempts to refute the commonly-held belief that the media is inherently biased. He makes a pretty convincing case, citing, among other things, the number of conservative pundits who regularly appear on TV and in print, even in the so-called liberal bastions of the Washington Post and CNN. Here's an excerpt.
Here's an ambitious goal: "catalogue and preserve the country's digital information, a process expected to take up to five years." It's a $100M project undertaken by (who else) the Library of Congress.
Posted by Linkmeister at February 21, 2003 03:39 PM