Media pounce on "screeching," "frothing [liberal] bloggers" -- while waving on conservatives who advocate ... murder

(TM note: If you have been reading the MSM, you probably think that that liberal bloggers are screaming for blood. Media Matters has done an excellent job of compiling the really extreme blogging -- the ones actually calling for blood -- starting below.)

"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser

In May, Greg Sargent wrote for The American Prospect's website:

In recent weeks, one member after another of the D.C. media establishment has gone out of his way to depict bloggers as hysterical, angry and destructive. To hear them tell it, bloggers sitting at their computers are akin to squalling brats in high-chairs chucking baby food at their sober, serious elders -- i.e., major figures at the established news organizations.

Not long ago, The Washington Post's Jim Brady lamented "blog rage." Joe Klein's latest column complained about "vitriol" and "all the left-wing screeching." Former Bill Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry recently told us that reporters are complaining they feel "intimidated" because "most of the blogosphere spends hours making them feel that way." And a CBS opinion piece recently asked: "Does noise trump contemplation in the blogosphere?"

Three of the four examples Sargent cited -- Brady, Klein, and McCurry -- were complaining specifically about liberal bloggers. And that's a reasonable representation of major media reaction to bloggers: Liberal bloggers get dismissed as crazy and angry, often by reporters who don't bother to offer a single example to back up their sneering insults. Klein, for example, derided "all the left-wing screeching" by "frothing bloggers" and dismissed their "vitriol" as "uninformed, malicious and disproportionate." He didn't, however, quote a single screeching or vitriolic blog post.

(The rest is here.)