As if we couldn't have guessed, but...

It's always nice to have confirmation of what we all suspect, I guess. This is an anonymous account of what's going on inside a national network newsroom, from the view of someone who works in that newsroom. This can be found at a few different links. Here's one. Here's another, with additional similar anecdotes.

Off the record, every suspicion you have about the Mainstream Media [MSM] being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working.” I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.

And this next item is also interesting, but in a different way.
Just some Questions about conflict of interest in the press...

Media Coverage, Pre-Crisis [Greg Pollowitz]

Just some quick thoughts...

One, shouldn't the MSM look closer at the conflicts of interest in their own newsrooms? I'm not talking liberal bias, but issues like David Gregory's marriage to a senior executive at Fannie and Andrea Mitchell's marriage to Alan Greenspan. I'm sure there are many other conflicts in D.C., from the lowest level in the newsroom on up. For example, did David Gregory ever ask about the financial health of Fannie Mae during all those White House press corps briefings he attended?

Two, I would love to see the internal billing records of the New York Times and find out how many reporter hours were spent in the last year trying to uncover John McCain's alleged relationship with a female lobbyist and compare that to the amount of reporter hours spent covering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.