Just a follow up to what Little Hawk has written. Unbeknonst to many folks the Federal Communication Comission (FCC) headed by Colin Powell's son, Michael, has been lobbied very heavily by the media to drop the 5 remaining regulations on media ownership. These same folks have contributed heavily to George Bush and other Repubs and minimally to the Dems. And the media has gotten it's money's worth as the Bush administration has been all in favor of dropping these regulations. Might of fact, they have bent over backwards to do it under the radar. Problem is that the lone Dem. appointment on the FCC has held at least two, and perhaps three, unofficial hearings on the matter and gotten the issue some attention and then the Senate got involved and reversed Powell's decision to drop the regs... This is politics at its worse but does explain why media has given Bush a *pass* on everything from refusing to bring up the fact that Bush is an alcoholic (recovering) during the campaign to hiding White House retractions deep inside the paper. It's now wonder that a large percentage of Americans still believe one or more of the *Big Three* lies that were used to whip the country into a lather to invade Iraq. Yeah, the *lies* are printed in the headlines and the retractions, if printed at all, buried... It is a complete falicy to think of media as siding with Dems... It's beyond joke level... They want, like Bush, the *power* to control *everything* and they've found someone who is perfectly willing to assist them...

Bobert