. . . is even less balanced liberal reporting.

At least that's the prescription from a bunch of liberal MSM types at the "Take Back America" (from the real Americans, I guess) conference.

"The conservatives have got us, as a country, now believing that balance -- giving both sides -- is the same as truth, and there are some things that are just false," said Linda Foley, president of The Newspaper Guild, during a panel discussion on media reform at the "Take Back America" conference in Washington, D.C.

Funny, that sounds like she is complaining that conservatives VOLUNTARILY follow the dictates of the old "Fairness Doctrine". You know, the thing that the Left constantly demands be brought back as an antidote to conservative talk radio. Ms. Foley, though, seems to thing that presenting multiple sides to a controversy is a bad thing. After all, that might imply that the sides are equally legitimate and that reasonable, rational people can take either side.

Consider this controversial area.

Take global warming, said Josh Silver, another panelist and executive director of the Fair Press media reform organization.

Silver said the United States is the only developed, industrialized country that still debates in the mainstream media whether or not global warming is happening. No need to give the other side on that topic, he was suggesting, since global warming is the truth.

Of course, global warming remains nothing more than a theory in the scientific community, one that is not necessarily supported by the evidence. One recent study showed that the climatological community is split on the issue of global warming, with many scientific studies throwing the theory into question. Silver would apparantly make global warming an article of faith, with questioners relegated to the lunatic fringe. Who knows -- maybe he would like a public response to articles disputing global warming which rivals the response to Newsweek's Koran-flushing article.

The problem of public distrust of the liberal mainstream press must be met head on, according to the panelists -- by resisting the temptation to present all sides of controversial matters, by covering up evidence that contradicts the libral view, and by discreditting information based upon its sourcce rather than its accuracy.

Unfotunately for the MSM, that won't work, because there are plenty of conserative bloggers and talkers who will get the word out, and force them to take notice of inconvenient truths -- or wither away and die.