I don’t dispute Tim’s basic point about liberal bias at PBS, but the NewsHour hasn’t been entirely “deaf, dumb, and blind about conservative media criticism,” since they have had Bob Lichter of the Center for Media & Public Affairs on the show a number of times. Lichter’s appearances (and mine) underline my sense that PBS and NPR are open (to a degree) to conservative voices, so long as those voices appear consistent with the media outlets’ view of themselves as serving an elite constituency. And, despite the many strengths and contributions of David Horowitz and the late Reed Irvine, they don’t fit the NPR/PBS mold – this doesn’t make Lichter better than Horowitz, just that they serve different markets. Of course, conservatives labor under a double standard at PBS, as in many other institutions of our society (for instance, my opponent on a couple of NewsHour appearances was the former director of a Trotskyite anti-Israel group linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — and people call me extreme!). But we can get heard on these outlets with the right product.