Hoyt is forever examining the Times’ hit pieces on conservatives — whether on Sarah Palin or John McCain. He’s forced to offer excuses for being late on the Reverend Wright story. (He even has to clean up after Maureen Dowd’s plagiarism.) And yet he never quite seems able to connect the dots. The sheer number of flawed stories, the consistency of the bias, and the shoddiness of his colleagues’ excuses never lead him to the conclusion that the only plausible excuse is that the Times is populated solely by liberals who either consciously or not skew news coverage to help their side…

What is missing in all of this is any indication that because the Times doesn’t cover bad-news-for-Obama stories the paper is misleading its readers. There is nary a hint that its “analysis” pieces (i.e., the op-eds on the front page) are flawed because they omit storylines unfavorable to the side for which the Times is rooting. Hoyt never would suggest that because the Times studiously refused during the campaign to cover Obama’s radical associations that the voters received a false portrait of precisely who they were electing.