Clinton strategist Mark Penn:

I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don’t do that for all four of the candidates, they’re on very dangerous ground.

I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.

And I think that that’s a real problem growing out of this election. The media now, all of the media — not just Fox News, that was perceived as highly partisan — but all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is an unfortunate development.

Not really.

The Unfortunate Development has been the US media being or becoming partisan and this not being noticed.

Now that it has been noticed, maybe the media will try to do an honest job.

This, in fact, is easy. When interviewing a candidate for high office, broadcast the questions and answers as given – not cut and paste the answers in ad hoc TV clips to make the politician concerned look bad.

Surely the media are not that clueless/biased?

Oh yes they are.

Reminds me of the Elvis Costello song Invisible Man:

Never mind there’s a good film showing tonight,
Where they hang everyone everybody who can read and write.
Oh that could never happen here – but then again it might…