The term is a misnomer. Liberals used to be those who supported individual thought, belief, and behavior. They supported freedom and opposed government controlled, ruling class configurations of society.

The "Liberal Media" is more a Statist media, defending government propaganda. It supports a leaning-toward-fascist structure that elevates State over individual. It sometimes knowingly, but usually unwittingly, promotes the political views and desires of the Rulers.

But I don't just mean moderators who take sides in presidential debates or the supporters who make believe they are impartial journalists. I'm talking about the more subtle "slanting" that occurs.

Here is an example taken from the Shawangunk Journal. In a (9/29/2016) front page article we read: "REGIONAL – With an economy that has struggled back to life and unemployment now at 4 percent..."

Four percent unemployment (in the region) is a mistruth. Government has juggled and redefined unemployment — it no longer counts long-time out-of-work nor temporary part-time workers as unemployed. The honest number is probably well above 10 percent but our press perpetuates the lie.

This is the kind of lie that we laughed at in the Soviet Union's Pravda and Izvestia. Those papers, the Communist Party organ and the Supreme Soviet's "official" paper were ongoing sources of disinformation and mistruths meant to deceive the citizenry.

We hear schools are improving, as test scores are going up. This is statistical propaganda. As poorer performing students "opt-out", test results improve. As schools concentrate on preparing kids for the test (rather than education,) results improve. But schools are not improving. It's a sure bet that in an attempt to "look good" in Common Core evaluations, schools do a worse job in terms of actual student education.

Consider college education. Our press lauds how our nation is becoming better educated although it's off a few points in the last few years, around two thirds of high school graduates now attend college — up 50 percent since the early sixties. Anybody paying attention knows that they're learning less and, to put it harshly, are receiving an overpriced diploma certifying, not learning, but politically correct indoctrination.

Standard of living: we are told that household income is up — good thing, right. No, the thing that matters, per-capita income, is down. Household income is a bad indicator when more people (the unemployed and under-employed among them) are living "at home."

Guns: we are told that hundreds of children and teens are killed by guns each week. We are not told that most of these children are gang members and that the upper age limit of "children and teens" varies from 21 to 26.

Each repetition of misleading statistics is an example of a biased press opting to promote government's intentional misrepresentation.

In this very paper a headline read: "October is Domestic Violence Month – Like Gun Violence, It's Become A Major Health Problem." Totally gratuitous. There is not a word about guns in the article.

Man-made global warming — now it's called climate change: as Matthew spun through the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and along the south-east coast, we heard our president hailing the new Paris climate accords with the implication that stricter carbon regulations on the part of the developed nations would help avert such disasters.

And contrary to what our Constitution says about treaties, the Senate need not ratify this one because it is so important that he'll ratify it himself and call it an executive agreement.

The press has, for over a decade now, reported man-made global warming/climate change as "fact" supported by "consensus" of government scientists. It is a possibility, but not fact. It's another example of "believe the government" propaganda being echoed.