American media guilty of a liberal conspiracy?

How I would have loved to have had my ear against the door outside of the Boston Globe’s conference room on the morning of October 30th.
“A British paper discovered that Barack Obama’s aunt is living in squalor in a slum in South Boston.”“A British paper!?!?”
The Boston Globe, headquartered in South Boston, had the story in its back yard. Yet it was the Times Online that first broke the news that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s aunt is living illegally in the US despite being served a deportation order several years ago.

writes Evan Lips over at New Statesman
Does this the state of the American press? Evan claims that

There have been several instances where the media – confronted with relevant news regarding Barack Obama – has decided simply to remain silent.

So has there been a liberal conspiracy.Well the writer points to a number of examples that cover a range of issues and sums up with the comment

It may have been beneficial to American voters if more British news groups had covered our election.