Sorry, GUEST, but CBS, ABC and NBC are not the liberal bastions you imagine them to be. First of all, they are owned by the giant media conglomerates that Bush's new FCC regulations were written for. So their corporate management is firmly Republican. Secondly, their newsrooms, which are mixed and have people to present both viewpoints, play by an entirely different set of rules. They use BALANCE as an actual principle (rather than an empty mantra), so they tell you both sides even when they probably shouldn't.

Using Global Warming as an example, if 95% of reputable scientists say Global Warming is a problem, and 5%, who are paid by right-wing think tanks, say Global Warming is not a problem, then the "liberal" media will say "some scientists think Global Warming will be a problem, but others are not so sure." It's a true statement, and it's "balanced" between the viewpoints, but not between the numbers or credibility of those who share the viewpoints.

Then on the networks there are some people, like John Stossel on ABC, who are simply paid huge amounts of money by giant polluting corporations; they pay him ostensibly to speak at corporate functions. He makes millions off of them, then goes on ABC and says "The scientists that I trust say Global Warming won't be a problem!"

FOX and most of the other Cable networks, on the other hand, are blatantly right wing and don't make any effort to balance. So you get the so called liberal media telling you "Global Warming might or might not be a problem," liars embedded in the "liberal" media telling you "Global Warming won't be a problem" and the cable news channels, especially FOX, saying "no credible scientists REALLY think global warming will be a problem." So how surprising is it that most Americans don't really think there's any urgency to the Global Warming issue?

On political issues it works the same way. It's a sad sight to see!