Author Andrew Klavan writes, in my humble opinion, the best media bias column I have ever seen. Klavan should blog, if he does not do so already.

He not only offers the solution, but point by point dispels every B.S. excuse that journalists throw in the way of media reform in his column in Monday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, “Read My Lips: Hire Some Conservatives.”

Look, I’m really busy right now but, all right, I’ll take five minutes to solve the problems of the mainstream media. I mean, ratings for network news are at an all-time low, newspaper readership is falling off the chart, the public’s trust in journalists is steadily eroding — the least I can do is sacrifice one coffee break in order to sort things out. It doesn’t require internal studies or revamped formats. Just three little words of advice will fix every one of their troubles: Hire some conservatives.

I don’t mean hire a conservative. I don’t mean cover conservatives. I don’t mean allow conservatives to express a minority opinion on your Op-Ed page or argue at the top of their lungs on some yes/no, black/white, point/counterpoint debate program. I mean that at ABC, CBS, NBC, the Los Angeles Times et al, a substantial proportion of the reporters who cover stories, and the editors who assign and shape those stories, should be people with conservative beliefs. The rest can continue to be what they are now: left-wingers who live under the delusion that they’re moderates.

Klavan’s class act column pulls no punches. I love how he dispels MSM excuses for the ideological one-party newsroom:

• “Reporters can be liberal and still report objectively.” This is only half true. Liberal reporters can report objectively if they are countered by conservative reporters and editors who challenge their assumptions. Surrounded by their own, they become convinced their perspectives are reality.

• “Reporters don’t even know the political opinions of the journalists who work around them.” This is not true at all. I’ve worked in newsrooms. You know.

• Conservatives don’t go into journalism because there’s no money in it and they’re small-minded authoritarians, whereas liberals have the sort of commitment to civic good and incisive, free-wheeling intelligence that suits them to the journalist’s trade. This is just shameful, self-delusive nonsense.

• “There is no liberal media bias.” Well, look, I can’t help you unless you admit you have a problem.

The author has a Web site you can find here.