I ask you simply to look across the media landscape, and make your own conclusions about where the media falls upon the political spectrum. Let's start with talk radio, which more than half the nation claims to listen to regularly. We are all aware of Rush Limbaugh, who went from being an independent conservative to the lapdog of the GOP ever since George Bush invited him over for a sleep-over at the White House. In addition to Rush, talk radio can also boast of the presence of G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, James Dobson and Bob Grant, to name only a few. These men will never be mistaken for Trotsky's bedfellows.
Television is an even more interesting arena.
Pat Buchanan and P.J. O'Rourke are certainly prominent political commentators in TV, eclipsed in notoriety by only Rush himself. Even supposedly non-partisan televangelists are getting into the act. The Reverend Jerry Falwell set aside some time on the Old Time Gospel Hour to hawk The Clinton Chronicles, a video that accuses President Clinton of endorsing drug-smuggling operations and being a conspirator in murder. The Washington Times is funded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who also funds the weekly Insight and the journal The World and I, all right-leaning publications. Consider The Wall Street Journal.