that again, people confuse the fact that they won't do real investigative reporting and tell us the *truth* (for fear of sounding biased toward one side or the other) with being "unbiased and centrist".

Most "news" is some pathetic variation of the following:

"The president today said X, Y and Z, but the Democrats disagree and claim that the president isn't telling the truth about X, Y and Z."

Sadly, a lot of people think that's "fair and balanced" instead of a bunch of bullshit.  REAL news would say "While X and Y are supported by facts, Z is called into question because..." etc. 

And vice versa, the truth could very well mean that the Dems are exaggerating or lying about some fact or figure.  But it's increasingly rare that you hear that, and if you DO hear that it's often on superficial bullshit issues.

I don't always agree with Wes Clark Jr, but he makes a brilliant point when he says the media covers these bullshit stories (about Brittany, candidate race and gender, did Obama turn his back on Hillary, etc.) because they require no real investigation or money.  And Cenk furthers the point when he rightly says these stories have the added advantage of being relatively politically neutral with respect to favoring any one political party.

As to your point that both extremes get angry, I'm not sure how relevant that is...aren't both extremes *always* angry about something?  If they weren't they wouldn't be called extremes.

Besides, starting in the 80's (technically maybe even the 70's) there was a big push from the right to demonize (correctly or incorrectly) the media as "liberally biased".  That movement grew and got louder and louder until today it actaully infects a lot of moderates and independents.  If it *was* true when the movement started, it sure as hell hasn't been true for a long time.

Again, the media is primarily (aside from the entire Fox network, Beck, Scarborough, Tucker, Stossel, Elizabeth Hasselbeck and whoever I left out) ratings/corporate driven, and out to not offend.  It just so happens that republicans are the party of big business and deregulation, which goes hand in hand with increasing profits and media monopolies.  Don't think that has no impact on what's covered and what's not.

Combine that with a media terrified of being labeled liberal and you end up with (generally) watered down centrists who lean right (even if in real life they're libreal) only because they avoid doing honest reporting on various issues that would make Republicans (especially this administration) look bad.