Jonathan Cohn thinks that the willingness of Judith Miller, Matthew Cooper, and the New York Times to “protect” Karl Rove suggests that conservatives are wrong about media bias, while Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron’s willingness to ask the White House a toughish question about Rove suggests how troubling Rove’s behavior has been. I’m not persuaded.

It may be that this episode should modify some conservatives’ views of the media. But I don’t think most conservative critics of liberal media bias believe or say that this bias will overwhelm all competing concerns in all cases–and if that’s true, not a lot is left of Cohn’s point.

As for Cameron, you could just as easily reverse the direction of Cohn’s tendentiousness and say that maybe Cameron’s question should make liberals rethink their blanket attacks on Fox.