The Media's "Liberal Bias" Was Always a Lie. Now It's a Weapon.

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it

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The Media's "Liberal Bias" Was Always a Lie. Now It's a Weapon.

In the Wall Street Journal this week, Gerard Baker celebrated what he called a media “revolution” — the installation of Bari Weiss at CBS News and Jeff Bezos’s rightward reorientation of the Washington Post’s opinion section. These moves, Baker argues, are finally fixing the “biggest problem” with elite news organizations: their overwhelming liberal bias.There’s just one problem with Baker’s analysis: The outlets he claims suffer from liberal bi…