What Liberal Bias?
This just in - Rise in GOP Numbers May Impact Elections. Gosh, ya think? Here's why I think this headline demonstrates bias: it seems to regard high numbers of Democrats as normative, so that Republicans taking part in the election are steering it in an unnatural direction.
A review of national polls after the Republican National Convention found a slight shift in the number of people who described themselves as Republicans compared with the number who said they were Democrats. Polls after the Democratic National Convention, showed strength for Democratic nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) and the Democrats.
See? A rise in Republican numbers is a (value-neutral) "shift", while similar numbers for Democrats are "strength."
The rest of the piece is just as bad, and worse, and engages in a sort of "balance" I've noticed a lot of lately: turning a story on its head and then reporting it from that perspective.