The wily William Quick has an instructive post on The New York Times’ increasingly evident anti-Bushism — particularly with regards to Bush’s hard line on North Korea (but generally speaking, as well) — a sad media situation not without its practical consequences:

It’s getting to be quite sad. Howell Raines’s new regime at NYT appears to be so knee-jerk in its opposition to anything the Bush administration attempts that it is in danger of becoming little more than a ‘smart tool’ for Democratic Party interests. If this was the case with just any newspaper, it wouldn’t matter so much. But such a huge proportion of the national media takes its cues from NYT that the end result is to convince at least half the country that Times-influenced media viewpoints have little or nothing to do with the real world or their lives in it.

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