Stanley Kurtz has a useful post in The Corner calling out the NYT and their reporter Linda Greenhouse for kissing the hem of Justice Ginsburg’s robe on today’s front page.

There’s one thing that could bear highlighting about Greenhouse and this episode of media bias. To wit: She is doing exactly what Media Matters asks reporters to do, and was created to encourage. Yes, part of the purpose behind the Media Matters project is to furnish left-leaning reporters with the “we’re getting complaints from both sides, so we must’ve played it straight down the middle” defense; but there’s a more fundamental shifting of the terms being attempted, and it seems to be paying off here.

Compare the gripes of the Media Research Center with those of Media Matters and the difference becomes clear. Conservatives have always defined media bias as: a) preventing conservatives from getting their message out, or b) making the liberals’ case for them. The Brockians now seek to define media bias as failing to do these things (especially the latter). Which transforms Greenhouse into the very model of unbiased reportage.

A clever bit of pushback, that.