Yes, liberal bias does play a role in explaining why — as Newsbusters.org reports — the major networks have had 44 times more coverage of Chris Christie's "Bridgegate" scandal than they have had on anything related to the IRS political-targeting scandal that began last May.Of course the IRS big shots were targeting Tea Party groups, and the mainstream media is generally hostile to the grassroots movement.
Jonathan Alter, speaking on MSNBC, has dismissed the comparison by saying that "there are not ongoing revelations [in the IRS story]. If there were ongoing revelations in the IRS matter, that would still be a story." He made his claim only four days after news broke that the Justice Department had chosen a significant Obama donor to head its investigation of the IRS, creating the obvious perception of a conflict of interest.
But it's also true that a large part of the difference in coverage is owing simply to the laziness of journalists, for whom anything connected to a future presidential election trumps delving deeply into more complicated topics.
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