I can no longer be surprised at the blatant, in your face bias of the media; all I can do is point it out.

Just get a load of this headline, on what’s supposed to be a news story: Gov’t Eludes 9/11 Accountability, Blame.

In the two and a half years since al-Qaida terrorists hijacked airplanes and killed nearly 3,000 Americans, there have been no announced firings, demotions or resignations at the CIA, FBI, immigration service, White House, State Department, Pentagon or any other federal agency.

“It’s been a mystery to us … how so many mistakes were made and nobody’s held accountable,” said Lorie Van Auken, widowed on Sept. 11 and now a member of a victims’ family steering committee. “The buck stops nowhere.”

Former White House counterterror chief Richard Clarke two weeks ago drew tears and gratitude from families — and criticism from Republicans — when he publicly apologized. “Your government failed you. … I failed you,” said Clarke, who resigned in 2003.

Few expect a similar statement from Clarke’s former boss and President Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, when she appears Thursday to testify before the Sept. 11 commission that is investigating government anti-terror efforts preceding the attacks.

“A member of a victims’ family steering committee.” I guess it would be too much to expect the media to tell us who is behind this person. It sounds like another representative of the far-left Peaceful Tomorrows group, linked to the Stalinists at International ANSWER.

UPDATE: Here’s more on Lorie Van Auken and that “victim’s steering committee,” at TimesWatch. (Hat tip: levi from Queens.)

Van Auken went on the far-left radio network Pacifica last July to express her frustration with the Bush administration’s response to the 9-11 investigation, saying: “I hope that we can all work together in this whole country to plead with this government to understand that big business is not the main concern. I mean, you know, it’s a capitalist society, but we have to be safe in this country.”

Last Sunday, Times columnist Frank Rich noted approvingly Kristen Breitweiser’s anti-Bush criticism of the Showtime TV movie “DC 9/11: Time of Crisis.” Rich writes: Kristen Breitweiser, a 9/11 widow, characterized one of the movie’s many elisions in Salon. To show the president continuing to sit and read with elementary school kids ‘while people like my husband were burning alive inside the World Trade Center towers,’ she wrote, ‘would run counter to Karl Rove’s art direction and grand vision.’”