The struggling wire service, owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, has been fading fast in recent years. Is this why? In a reaction piece to the Palin/Gibson interview, UPI runs a wildly opinionated piece, although it's not tagged as an editorial, that claims, “Gibson was out to embarrass Palin and expose her presumed ignorance from the word go,” and that the ABC host was “out for blood and inherently applied a double-standard compared.”

That seems to be putting the thumb on the scale, don't you think?