What liberal media?

I’ve been following the DNC and RNC conventions fairly closely, and Paul Krugman’s op-ed today about “The Resentment Strategy” is as astute an analysis as I’ve seen regarding the RNC convention.

Republicans spent a lot of time railing against the liberal media from their platform in the Excel Center in St. Paul this week, which seems a little odd if one examines today’s New York Times. The paper devotes over three full pages to covering the convention and practically ignores the repression of anti-war protests going on outside.  They only offer one picture with the subtitle:  “Herding Protestors: Officers wearing riot gear fired tear gas and flash grenades to try to control antiwar demonstrators on Thursday at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Some demonstrators were arrested after they refused to leave the area.” One would think that the use of preventive strikes and  flash grenades on U.S. citizens expressing their free speech rights would be worthy of coverage. It’s quite reminiscent of the way important stories were buried during the lead-up to the latest war in Iraq. What liberal media?