Jeff Jacoby reported on the state of the media in 2004:

When New York Times reporter John Tierney surveyed reporters covering the Democratic National Convention last month, the results were striking. “We got anonymous answers from 153 journalists, about a third of them based in Washington,” he wrote on Aug. 1. “When asked who would be a better president, the journalists from outside the Beltway picked Mr. Kerry 3 to 1, and the ones from Washington favored him 12 to 1.”

And Evan Thomas of Newsweek said this in 2004:

The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there’s going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.

Questions: (a) have things gotten better or worse for the media since 2004? (b) what does this presage for 2011-2012?

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