For more evidence the MSM is out of touch, look at the front page of The Washington Post on June 10. The second paragraph of a story about the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary gets things exactly backward.

“R. Creigh Deeds beat Brian Moran and Terry McAuliffe in every region of the state, including vote-rich Northern Virginia, despite a pro-gun stance and relatively conservative positions that are out of line with many of the area’s voters,” the story says. Despite?

Brian Moran positioned himself as a liberal and promised to “fight” for Virginians. As if there isn’t already enough fighting in politics today? He’s the brother of human gaffe-machine U.S. Rep. James P. Moran Jr., who apparently has a job for life no matter what he says or does. Yet Moran didn’t even win his brother’s ultra-liberal congressional district.

McAuliffe spent some $7.5 million on his failed bid -- roughly $90 per vote. His ads promised to solve the state’s transportation woes with high speed rail -- exactly the sort of program big-spending liberals usually drool over. Yet voters didn’t swallow that either.

Occam’s razor applies here: the simplest explanation is probably correct. Deeds won because of his conservative positions, not in spite of them.

The mainstream media is dying, while alternative outlets on cable TV and the Web are thriving. Columnist Charles Krauthammer recently explained why. “The reason Fox News has thrived and grown is because it offers a vibrant and honest alternative to those who could not abide yet another day of the news delivered to them beneath layer after layer of often undisguised liberalism,” he says. That’s the point.

A liberal party line is about all the MSM still has in stock. Small wonder it’s going out of business and cannot find many buyers, even at bargain basement prices.