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To: Lane3 who wrote (12444)	2/17/2006 12:05:55 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541355

I'm not phobic, simply realistic, or at least I think so. I read the NYT regularly, there is a lot of good stuff in it and a lot of garbage, too. I think the Washington Pest is a far better newspaper, though I don't agree with all it says, either. I used to read Time and Newsweek a long time ago, before they fell from their perches as dignified, sober journals. I read the WSJ fairly regularly, and find good and bad stuff in it, too. I consider myself a fairly discerning reader and observer of the media. I agree that Fox is biased to the right and think ABC, NBC and CBS are definitely biased to the left. I don't really watch CNN. I watch PBS and think it is definitely on the left. I consider Coulter, Dowd and Limbaugh entertainment. Talk radio is uniformly rightist, except for a few islands of liberal broadcasting, NPR being the most notable. I read every issue of The Atlantic, though I do not always agree with it. Harper's, too, but it's losing lustre and is not as influential as it was before. In any event, it also leans ot the left, a bit more than The Atlantic. I have a subscription to Foreign Affairs, though I haven't seen it recently thanks to mail problems with Katrina. I am a voracious reader of blogs, which I think are wonderful. There's damned little media stuff that escapes me. As a result, I think I have a fairly good handle on the various bents each exhibit. I've formed the conclusion that the MSM, which I consider to be the major TV networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, are bent to the left, excpet for Fox which is bent to the right. The major newspapers, NYT, the Pest, and the LA Times, are uniformly bent to the left. The WSJ leans to the right. I think these are fairly accurate observations, but I naturally would.