The state of our media: truthless or toothless.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

I began my most recent column with what seemed to me the most obvious of truths, that despite their faults, Obama and the congressional Democrats are clearly better than the Republican alternatives. Yet two months later I find that this obvious truth, instead of being embraced by the liberal and whatever remains of the responsible moderate media, is largely ignored.

Lies are loudly repeated on Fox News but corrected mostly sotto voce by the rest of the media. Consider the Republicans' claim that small business will be devastated by Obama's plan to eliminate the Bush tax cuts on incomes above $250,000, a claim that is now a staple on Fox and often repeated on CNBC. In its business section, but not on its front page, the New York Times corrected this claim, showing that only 3 percent of small businesses would be...