PRESS BIAS?  WHAT PRESS BIAS?- AT 7:06 A.M. ET:  Do you doubt that there is press bias?  If yo have any doubts at all, please read the opening paragraph on this New York Times story:

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s economy is being dragged down by the recession to the north. American addicts have turned Mexico into a drug superhighway, and its police and soldiers are under assault from American guns. Nafta promised 15 years ago that Mexican trucks would be allowed on American roads, but Congress said they were unsafe.

United States-Mexican relations are in the midst of what can be described as a neighborly feud, one that stretches along a lengthy shared fence. That border fence, which has become a wall in some places, is another irritant.

COMMENT:  In other words, it's all America's fault.  This is journalism at its shabbiest - pure leftist propaganda in the form of a news story, and printed in our "leading" newspaper.  It is a disgrace, and should have been stopped by any competent editor.

Strange, but we have a neighbor to the north.  It doesn't spill violence over our borders.  It isn't wracked by drug wars.  It doesn't flood us with illegals.  And we don't even need a fence.  It's called Canada, and maybe the writers of this impossibly slanted story might contemplate the contrast between the northern and southern borders. 

The sad decline of The New York Times continues.

March 25, 2009