How did this ever get into print? Mr Krugman is so far to the left that everything looks right wing to him, but that does not make anything he says true. His quote "Look at the 2000 presidential campaign, for example, where the media were so heavily biased against Al Gore." is so off the wall that one wishes that this piece could be rated zero. His "[T]here probably aren't, at networks other than Fox, ... memos saying here is how we are going to slant the news today -- at Fox there are, every day." must offend the people at ABC which does have such a Note and famously wrote about its need to slant for Kerry against Bush in 2004, that Mr Krugman does not know they exist. It is news to Washingtonians that the 100,000 circulation Washington Times is more important that the 800,000 circulation Washington Post, or that Fox News is more important that the Democratic party boosters at CBS, who get much higher viewership. Eith Mr Krugman is uninformed about reality. or he is blindfolded by his ideology. In either case, this is bad journalism.