is that you'll have one flaming liberal, one self-professed moderate, the host, and one conservative. Whenever a question is raised, the conservative gets attacked by the other 3. That's what they call "balanced" coverage.

Bias in the media can be overt or subtle. For example, when there's a controversial issue like today's vote in the House of Representatives regarding federalizing airport security personnel, how many Republicans get soundbites verses Democrats? What is the respective amount of airtime given to each side? What about the phrasing of the questions asked? It comes across as very biased against Republicans in most stories I see. Apparently, I'm not the only one who sees this bias, given the increase in the Fox News ratings and the declining ratings and readership for so many other news outlets.

The fact that reporters and news anchors have their own biases is nothing new or unexpected. It would be wonderfully refreshing if they'd actually admit it. However, I've heard some of them who earnestly believe they're "moderate" (compared to what, I don't know) and anything even modestly to the right of their views gets labeled as "extremist."