Peggy Noonan on the Decline of the Mainstream Media

Peggy starts out: "I don't think Democrats understand that the Alito hearings were, for them, not a defeat but an actual disaster." Besides the Democrats' "snarly tone," one reason their charges didn't go anywhere, Peggy writes, is that the liberals have lost their media monopoly. She suggests that if Ted Kennedy were to make his "Robert Bork's America" speech today, he wouldn't get away with it.

It's an encouraging piece, especially given how much bias still exists -- see my post of yesterday on CNN's Ed Henry.