NYTimes.com: Keeping Their Opinions to Themselves

Media Bias is hard, says the ombudsmen. However, after extensively researching various sources of possible bias and practically flagellating himself for not being sufficiently objective, he fails to conceive of the possibility that he's being played - that the accusations of bias are a deliberate strategy used by people who want to criticize the media when they're unable or unwilling to make their case on the merits.