Pat Kiernan takes the mask off.

I've felt for a long time that all of NY's commercial media is far more conservative than its audience and I think the rightward drift has become even more noticeable in the last two years.  We all love NY1 and many New Yorkers have had a crush of one kind or another on Pat Kiernan, the network's morning host. But, the time has come to accept that it is not an accident that Pat is constantly boosting right-leaning stories from the NY Post during his daily "in the news" segment.  This morning he really ripped of the mask as he glowed over the Wall Street Journal's (Newscorp property) story about the NPR executive who was caught on tape supposedly calling the tea-party "racist".  Oh, he tried to pass it off in his cutsy way, pretending that he just liked the use of language in the headline, but the truth is he spent nearly 30 seconds making sure that a New York audience got to hear the Post/Fox story of the day attacking NPR.  Leaving aside the fact that the source of the story is the reprehensible and ridiculously unreliable James O'keefe -- most people watching NY1, I suspect, believe that the tea party IS motivated by racism and believe that the right is attacking NPR because it is one of the few news outlets not controlled by corporate cash.  How about a story about that Pat? Am I wrong?