Last week the local radio station, which actually has a locally hosted show during drive time, was discussing the Rolling Stone article on Fox News chief Roger Ailes. I hadn’t read the article at the time, but now I have and I must say that one word comes to mind: predictable.

I called into the radio show to do what I do best, point out that all of the media is biased and that Fox News earns special opprobrium only because it’s biased to the right. To the show host, Dave Congalton, and his guest, the article proved what they knew all along: Fox News is evil, Roger Ailes is evil, and their mere existence is bad for journalism and America.

Congalton’s guest, whose name I didn’t catch, was a former journalist who saw CNN, CBS, NBC, PBS and ABC as middle-of-the-road. MSNBC, she admitted, leaned a little to the left. Ailes’ efforts to hire conservatives took on an ominous cast with the guest suggesting that the network hired only conservatives as reporters—a contention I could not locate in the article, probably because it is so provably false.

His guest was in disbelief in my contention that more than 85 percent of Washington political reporters were left wing. For the record, my numbers were off, but I was working from memory.

A newly released survey indicates that conservatives in the national press corps are a lonely lot. 585 [the total of national, local and Internet] journalists were polled by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Only six percent said they considered themselves conservatives and only two percent said they were very conservative. This compares with 36 percent of the overall population that describes itself as conservative.

Most journalists, 53 percent, said they're moderate. 24 percent said they were liberal and eight percent very liberal. The Washington Times quotes project deputy director Amy Mitchell as saying that the findings are about the same as in a similar survey done four years ago.

I did make the point that most journalists who consider themselves moderate are probably rather liberal when compared to the population as a whole—my refrain over the years has been that just because an individual is to Eric Alterman’s right, doesn’t mean they’re a conservative.

I could write a few thousand words taking apart that Rolling Stone article, from the use of anonymous sources to the supposedly damning charges of collaboration between Ailes/Fox News and the GOP—a collaboration that has been mirrored with the recent revelations of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman who’ve been consulting on foreign policy behind the scenes with President Obama.

Or consider how much was made about how a Bush cousin was working on Fox News’ decision desk in the 2000 election. The Rolling Stone article devotes four paragraphs to this controversy, suggesting that Fox News forced the other networks to call Florida and somehow hand the election to George W. Bush, but never mentions that CBS and the Associated Press’ Voter News Service called Florida for Al Gore while the polls were still open in the panhandle.

Fox News tilts right. Every other large media organization tilts left. The effort to vilify Fox News is as odious as it is dishonest.

On a related note: At least to this point, I continue to be right and L. Brent Bozell wrong.