Given how the media has gone completely into the tank for Kerry this year (Newsweek editor-in-chief talking about how the media is working hard to give Kerry 15%, Rathergate, NYTimes again and again, etc.), I think we should go back to the 1800s and early 1900s when not only were papers (pretty much the only media of the day) not objective, they were open and quite proud about not being objective.
Everyone’s agendas would be out on the table and media consumers could discount accordingly. Unlike today where the deck is stacked while the stacking is frantically denied.
There’s one good thing to come out of this election cycle — I now know once and for all to not trust the media. When they’re not incompetent, they’re biased.