en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1440285 Comments by davecolorado http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/07/16/top-ten-most-left-biased-american-journalists-7-howard-fineman-newsweek/#IDComment87047989 Here is Howard Fineman's last objective column from 2005: The ‘Media Party’ is over CBS’ downfall is just the tip of the iceberg By Howard Fineman WASHINGTON - A political party is dying before our eyes and I don’t mean the Democrats. I’m talking about the “mainstream media,” which is being destroyed by the opposition (or worse, the casual disdain) of George Bush’s Republican Party; by competition from other news outlets (led by the internet and Fox’s canny Roger Ailes); and by its own fraying journalistic standards. At the height of its power, the AMMP (the American Mainstream Media Party) helped validate the civil rights movement, end a war and oust a power-mad president. But all that is ancient history. Now the AMMP is reeling, and not just from the humiliation of CBS News. ....The AMMP, meanwhile, is regarded with ever growing suspicion by American voters, viewers and readers, who increasingly turn for information and analysis only to non-AMMP outlets that tend to reinforce the sectarian views of discrete slices of the electorate. Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:05:23 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/07/16/top-ten-most-left-biased-american-journalists-7-howard-fineman-newsweek/#IDComment87047989