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How can anyone claim that there exists any "liberal" view point in the main stream media? Alan Colmes? FOX news is de facto an organ of the GOP; the major networks are all owned by multi-national conglomerates; the WaPo, WSJ, USA Today and the NYT are decidedly not liberal. I read a midwestern daily and they purport to give equal time to both "sides", which is really a fucking joke. One day, it will be Malkin and Broder (sic), the next day Krauthammer and Dowd (sic); then Will and Friedman (sic); Krugmann gets in once a week, E.J. Dionne never. Needless to say, Glenn G never appears. NPR is decidedly NOT liberal, they seem to have evolved into self-censorship so as not to offend the GOP. And PBS gets hammered by the wing nuts because of Bill Moyers. One voice. The only place to get a leftist view point is on the web. Do you think that explains, in part, the right wing's foaming at the mouth (pace celebrities like Chris Matthews and Tom Friedman) at the inchoate "blogosphere"? The Reagan administration emasculated the vaunted "liberal" press corps, perhaps in retribution for Watergate and Viet Nam, and they have been co-opted since. The "liberal media" is a canard and has become conventional wisdom for the masses.
