Media bias? What media bias?

I posted on Newsweek's plan to transform itself into a sophisticated liberal journal three days ago, with Iowahawk's insightful "walk a mile in my shoes" take on the magazine's counter-intuitive plan to reduce subscriptions. And the rather surprising announcement that Stephen Colbert will guest-edit Newsweek. Because the first step toward becoming a really serious political journal is to hire a television satirist as a guest editor. Wild. Wonder how he'll do editing George Will?

Today, we learned that Newsweek's Evan Thomas has said,

"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world, he's sort of God."

Don't know about sophisticated, but Mr. Thomas has had the liberal part down for quite some time. The magazine cover for Newsweek's next issue.

Former Classics Professor Victor Davis Hanson (not of Newsweek), thinks of the function of the chorus in ancient Greek drama as he observes today's media:

The slavish manner in which the media lock stepped into Bush the near-fascist for tribunals, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, Patriot Act, Iraq, and Guantanamo; followed by choruses of Obama the sensitive, anguished overseer of tribunals, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, Patriot Act, Iraq, and Guantanamo was one of the most frightening things I ‘ve seen in a free society in 50 years.

Update: More adulation. from TIME, the New York Times and others.

Update 2:  The plan to become a serious liberal journal didn't work out for Newsweek any better than we thought it would.  The Washington Post had to sell it to the husband of a Democratic congresswoman.