In a recent speech at the National Press Club, News Corp Chairman — and, consequently, the boss of Fox News — Rupert Murdoch opined, “I don’t think we should be supporting the tea party or any other party. We have both sides in our news shows, our politics or whatever. We have Democrats and Republicans and whatever.”

He went on to paint the New York Times as an organization with an agenda bent toward “anything Mr. Obama wants.”

While the thinking person would agree that every media source has a bias — as there is no truly objective journalism — this statement by Murdoch is ridiculous. Murdoch should get the lumber out of his eye before he attempts to clear the speech from the eye of the New York Times.

Bias, and blindness to it, is not a commodity reserved for the right.

Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, discredits the idea that his network is pushing an ideology. “I think ideology means we think one way, and we don’t,” he said.

He gave an alternative perspective on his network by saying it “has passion and point of view.”

Contrast that with the following statement from the White House.

During a recent news conference aboard Air Force One, Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton pointed to MSNBC — specifically personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow — as an organization that, “keep[s] our government honest and pushes and prods to make sure that folks are true to progressive values,” he went on to say that the president “thinks that those folks provide an invaluable service.”

It seems to me that if a media organization “pushes and prods to make sure that people are true to progressive values” we can safely characterize that action as pressing an ideology.

It can be concluded, then that media bias exists on both ends of the spectrum. What is to be done about it?

CNN, in its typical holier-than-thou manner, displayed a perfect example of what not to do. Rick Sanchez summarized the situation with the following statement:

“In an effort to praise them, Burton has actually revealed MSNBC’s bias, or at least what the White House perceives as their bias … And by the way, since when is news supposed to have a limited point of view? Oh, that’s right. I just remembered. Ever since Fox decided to give mostly the conservative Republican side, and then MSNBC followed suit with mostly the liberal Democratic side — I guess I forgot. Look, from what I can tell, I wasn’t necessarily liked by the Bush White House, and I don’t think I’m particularly liked by the Obama White House as well. And you know what? That’s the way I like it.”

That is right, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to get on our feet and all hail Rick Sanchez and CNN: purveyors of the truth, political police and all-around civil servants.

A much better approach can be found anywhere from Glenn Beck to the Comedy Central personalities — the people from whom we really receive our news anyway. The conventional media outlets could learn an important lesson from the aforementioned.

The lesson: Let it all hang out. Admit you have a bias. Realize you are an entertainer with a set of beliefs that are going to influence your work no matter what you do about it. Most importantly, be able to laugh at yourself.

Whatever you do, don’t tell me that your perspective is the right one. That ship sailed a long time ago.