The biased press

I said below that the press (with the notable exception of Rolling Stone Magazine) has refused to report on what was definitely a stolen election and I linked to a Media Matters article about how the press smears and slams Democrats in areas where they give Republicans a pass. Here's a telling quote by Lawrence Grossman, longtime head of PBS and NBC News.

The job of the President is to set the agenda and the job of the press is to follow the agenda that the leadership sets.

Well! I thought the job of the press in a free society was to act as a watchdog with regard to the government and to report the news objectively and accurately. Even though Bush's poll numbers are in the toilet right now, I'm pessimistic about the country because the press is simply not doing its job.