Apparently, it’s not just me.

For years, conservatives’ claims of media bias have been dismissed as pure paranoia. I wonder if the fact that people on the left now feel the same way means I’ve been cured.

Television and print news have become such hack-fests that one barely needs the research skills of a, well, modern journalist, to find evidence of bias.

Let’s just take a stroll through the past week.

The MSM and its entertainment partners (Letterman, John Stewart and Co.) have been all over Joe Wilson for having a spontaneous (albeit rude) outburst of honesty last Wednesday. It’s been part of the national dialogue for almost a week now, so much so that Congress is preparing to take action on this pressing issue and vote to rebuke Wilson, despite the fact that he offered a personal apology to President Obama and it was accepted.

For six days, Wilson has been treated as if he had plumbed new depths of Congressional rudeness. About the only thing that could possibly be more horrifying than one representative rudely interrupting a president speaking in front of a joint session of Congress would be a group of them doing it, right?

While the press was out digging up the shocking fact that Wilson has taken No-Doz in the past, “crazy” bloggers were uncovering an actual loon in the House of Czars. 9/11 Truthers are so universally deemed insane that it’s the one issue that conservatives and Bill Maher agree on. That one of them had his hands on $80 billion of stimulus cash seemed like a story to many.

Not NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd. To be fair, reporting on anything negative in the Obama White House is grounds for immediate dismissal at NBC.

On to the ACORN story. The president’s pet group of community organizers (“Just like Jesus!”) has been getting into some trouble recently. Nothing as egregious as Joe Wilson’s shouting, of course, just pondering some teenage prostitution and stuff. Knowing that this is probably merely the tip of the sleaze iceberg, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut off federal bucks for ACORN yesterday. I found out about it while being online for ninety seconds to check my email last night. ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson cackled proudly about his ignorance of the story this morning.

Perhaps Charlie was busy perching his glasses on the end of his nose for an interview with Mark Levin, whose book Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto has dominated the New York Times best seller list this year (1 million copies sold as of today).

Or not. If you need to reach Mark, rest assured that he’s not on the phone with any of the network morning show bookers. However, if you’re dying to know what Elizabeth Edwards is up to she’ll be back on in an hour to pimp her book again. When books like Levin’s and Michelle Malkin’s Culture of Corruption shoot to the top of the NYT best seller list, the MSM employs a “if we ignore them they might go away” strategy. Good luck with that.

Politico.com has become one of the more respected online sources for political news and it has been acquiring some of the MSM’s lazy and irresponsible habits lately. Today alone we have even more hard-hitting news about-three guesses-Joe Wilson from Ben Smith. There is also an article from Chris Frates that is actually fair to us on the right. However, the YouTube evidence cited in the piece has been floating around the right wing blogosphere for weeks now. While it is a step in the right (no pun intended) direction, it’s a very slow, painful step.

The MSM routinely gets shown up by bloggers now. Rather than respond with some responsible journalism, they spend time denigrating those who do their jobs for them. Any time a guy from the New York Times whines about a lack of judgment and honesty in others you know the oxygen content in the room is a little thin.

There have, of course, been other industries that haven’t been able to see their doom staring at them from the mirror before. We’ve never had the convenience of one of them doing it so publicly until now, however. The very nature of journalism prevents these people from having their credibility disintegrate quietly.

The public nature of the demise of the MSM will make it easy for them to go back and see exactly how they destroyed themselves.

After the crazy bloggers teach them how to use Google and YouTube, of course.