Taranto conspicuously mum on the status of his media-bias theory

SUMMARY: Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto has yet to acknowledge that his theory of media bias -- that "the mainstream media ... are generally biased in favor of liberals and Democrats, but this ends up helping conservatives and Republicans by breeding complacency on the Democratic side" -- did not pass his own test. In a May 30 column, Taranto challenged readers to find an article from 1994 or 1980 "speculating about the possibility of a Republican landslide." Media Matters answered Taranto's challenge by presenting eight articles from 1994 that met his criteria. Since then, Taranto has twice addressed Media Matters' response but has ignored the fact his theory of media bias failed his test.

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