There's only one group that hates the liberal media more than the agrieved conservatives...and that's the liberal media itself.  The amount of neurotic self-flagelation is impressive. 

On CNN, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Kitty Pilgrim, and Howard Kurtz have virtually become unhinged at the liberal media's coverage of Governer Sarah Palin.  Howard Kurtz's media watch dog show (Reliable Sources) has recently been preoccupied with the unrelenting, and from his perspective unfair, crticism Sarah Palin has been receiving.  Similarly, Fox News analog News Watch show has been focused on how liberal elite reporters residing in big cities like New York have been more aligned with Wall Street versus Main Street when it comes to the recent financial crisis.

 ABC's political news director Mark Halperin goes on Bill O'Reilly's show and volunteers enthusiastically that the media (whoever they are) are too liberal and need to better understand the conservative mind.  CBS's Bob Schieffer admits and bemoans the existence of media bias.  On MSNBC, Joe Scarborough turns red with rage confronting liberal media bias each morning...barely able to get up in the morning and drag himself to the ultra-left network.  The New York times David Brooks finds that the liberal media is constantly in overdrive in an forgiving effort to discredit conservatism.

Further, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly tore the heart out of Satan himself (embodied as Barney Frank)  in a bit of rage driven by the liberal media's inability to accurately report who has really been the cause of the current financial crisis (Democrats, of course).  

 When does narrative of media bias peak?  It usually peaks and becomes part of the news cycle when one of the agrieved political blocks cries fowl and claims the media is working against it.  Typically and historically  this complaint comes from the right.  The media typically concedes its weakness and spirals into a period of self-reflection and neurotic hand wringing.  It's simply easier to "settle out of court," pay the fine, and move on. 

The press never bothers to do any real analysis and determine whether the charges of liberal bias have substance.  This appoach is even the case on the "media watch dog" shows that make the Sunday circuit.  But should this be surpising? It's the same way most news is covered- with out depth, without substance, without an expensive investment in analysis, and without much insight. 

So yes, the media is biased.  But it's bias is toward quick/grabber, lazy journalism that is more sensational than insightful.  That's the real bias and inclination.  To this end charges of media bias fit the bill - easy to throw together and  sensational.  "The refs are crooked" is hardly a headline an editor or producer could pass up - even for the "liberal media."

So, ironically; those that most vocally seem to loathe the liberal media are the members of the liberal media themselves.  Whenever liberal media bias becomes part of the news cycle, the media becomes an introspective psych patient incapable of raising a hand to stop the beating.  That anxiety ridden drama is just too good to pass up as a lead story.  (NOTE OF INTEREST: A very different approach is taken by Fox News when charges of conservative media bias are raised.  These charges are dismissed, the accusers are actively discredited, and the issue is twisted to prove the converse existence of liberal media bias. ) 

Rest assured that the next time you hear about liberal media bias,  you'll probably be hearing it from the liberal media.

POST SCRIPT:  But, the irony is that the self-flagelation typically comes from those living in that den of "liberal veniality" New York.  Ironically, CNN (the Communist News Network to conservatives) is based in Atlanta.  Fox News (the right leaning network) is based in New York.  We're surpised there hasn't been a big push to drag Fox out of that corruptable and contemptable Northern city to someplace their marketing department would seem to more align with their viewership...say Dallas.  With that, we think there should be a grass roots movement to move Fox from NYC to Dallas.  It would only make sesne to be closer to your customers.   With such a move, you'd be less likely to become infected with liberal thinking.     (Tongue definitely in cheek).