This Week’s “Reliable Sources”

From CNN:

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): Last man standing. John McCain, once pronounced dead by the press, all but clinches the Republican nomination as Mitt Romney drops out. Will journalists keep harping on McCain’s conservative critics? Did Romney ever get a fair shake from the media?

And Mike Huckabee sweeping the South this week. Why do reporters keep marginalizing this guy?

Super Tuesday stalemate. The pundits all said the race would be over this week. Now they seem to be giving Barack Obama the edge over Hillary Clinton, who’s lending millions to her own campaign.

Can anyone really handicap this race?

Plus, the Britney industry. With the pop tart out of the psych ward again, what explains the media’s continuing obsession with her sickening soap opera?

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