Media Bias and Candidate Bashing

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THERE others see press bias in presidential-race coverage I often see something else: What I call the "piling-on" tendency.

Sure, the media is piling on George Bush these days. Almost with glee they report the latest Bush negative. Each indication of the sluggish economy is portrayed as the president's fault. And he's being thoroughly bashed for tardiness in responding to Hurricane Andrew even though there is strong evidence that he reacted rather quickly, certainly as soon as he was called upon to do so by the Florida governor.

It's no secret that journalists covering presidential campaigns are mostly Democrats and liberals. This has been true for years, since …