Time media writer James Poniewozik (formerly of Salon.com) takes on the media-bias thumpers, as well, too biased to plausibly identify bias: “There is no subject about which people are less objective than objectivity.”

But he begins by unsubtly comparing Saddam to Dubya: “You’ve just liberated a nation from a tyrant who spread his lies through a state-run TV network. What do you do next? If you’re the Bush Administration, you spread the good news…by setting up a state-run TV network! Apparently, along with market capitalism and the one-man-one-vote principle, the Administration intends to export to Iraq America’s delicious sense of irony.” As if the coalition isn’t faced with responding to a set of Arabic channels that make Peter Jennings look even-handed.

In U.S. News, columnist John Leo explores media bias, the awful “Reagans” miniseries, “South Park,” and new vigor on the right from among others, Jonah Goldberg.