Appearing as a guest on Thursday's CNN Tonight, liberal New York Times columnist and CNN commentator Charles Blow managed to make a case that there is a liberal bias in the dominant media even while concluding that the liberal bias claim is "kind of false" as he asserted that there is actually an "urban media bias" instead. Host Don Lemon and CNN media reporter Brian Stelter voiced agreement with Blow's assessment.

After right-leaning CNN political commentator Matt Lewis argued that some recent criticisms of the media by President Donald Trump have been "bogus," he declared his belief that there is nevertheless generally a "liberal bias" in the media. Blow then jumped in and nearly admitted there is a liberal media bias even while denying it. Blow began:

Can I also defend media in this regard? Because I often hear people talk about this idea of liberal media bias. I think that more -- it's more accurate to say that there is an urban media bias, meaning that the largest publications, largest broadcasts are all --

Stelter and Lemon could heard jumping in to voice agreement:

STELTER: Based in New York, big cities. LEMON: Large cities, right. BLOW: -- based -- they're based in, like, big cities. And that informs a certain kind of sensibility. STELTER: Yes, yeah.

Blow continued:

And that is true. It attracts a certain sort of people who want to live in places like New York and D.C. and whatever. And that means that those kinds of journalists are gravitating. So I do believe that that is a real thing. But it also means that, you know, you're rubbing elbows with people that are very different than you. And so that means that you'll probably have a different sensibility about immigrants or whatever, or diversity. It means that you may have a different sensibility about how people identify on the LGBT spectrum. It also means that those people are -- have a bias towards science --

In Blow's comment about journalists having a "bias towards science," he did not acknowledge that journalists have mostly shown a liberal bias in which scientific beliefs that they agree with as they have been unsympathetic to those who assert that human embryos are alive, adult stem cells work better for research than embryonic stem cells, and a person's sex is a physical biological condition and not what is simply in one's mind.

After Lemon injected, "Right," Blow concluded that the liberal bias claim is "actually kind of false" as he ended his commentary:

- you know, because they're -- these institutions also exist in places where big colleges and a lot of intellectuals exist. And so I think this idea of, like, people just want to beat up on conservatives and favor liberals is actually kind of false. I think you have to shift that to say it is a function of where these places are.

But journalists don't have to be consciously out to get conservatives in order to slant their reports to the left. If journalists are mostly in liberal social circles in cities where people vote 70 percent or more Democratic in presidential elections, it would be likely that being immersed in such an environment would lead to limited reporting that slants left.

Below is a transcript of relevant portions of the Thursday, July 6, CNN Tonight: