Conservatives sometimes imagine that the news is shaped by the mainstream media to benefit Democrats. These conservatives, of course, are crazy — kooks. Have you read this interesting article from the Daily Caller? It’s on David Weigel, the reporter who, until today, worked for the Washington Post. An excerpt:

After Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat, threatening to kill the health care legislation by his presence, Weigel stressed how important it was for reporters to highlight what a terrible candidate his opponent Martha Coakley had been.
“I think pointing out Coakley’s awfulness is vital, because it’s 1) true and 2) unreasonable panic about it is doing more damage to the Democrats.”

Can we forgive conservatives, every once in a while, for their paranoia about how the mainstream media operate? About what the prevailing attitude is? Can we forgive them just a smidge?