The notion of a liberal slant to the media has been around quite a while, but can be best traced to Richard Nixon's verbal hatchet-man, VP Spiro Agnew. It caught on, as misleading labels often do, because it defended the interests of the entrenched right and demonized those smarmy fancy-pants college boy journalists that nobody really liked anyway. To Nixon's view, anything on the left side of Mussolini was 'liberal' and therefore dismissable. Whenever criticism and scrutiny became unbearable,Nixon merely smeared those who reported his capers.And now that the Democratic Party is essentially a conservative organization itself (Gore would have been a centrist Republican in any state but Tennessee,) even Democrats chide supposed media bias. I see no such conspiracy or tendency. We're simply enduring a time when conservative voices carry the farthest and liberals lack the guts to stand up and be counted, and until the pendulum swings back, lots of people will agree with these Agnew-Limbaugh-Cheney fabrications and exaggerrations. I say, blame it on Dukakis!