By Ben Timmins
It comes as no surprise that the national media is painted as having a liberal slant: a Google search for the terms “liberal media”
nets 990,000 results, and critics have long blasted the media for supporting liberal causes. One would expect, then, that an industry facing financial turmoil would look to a traditionally liberal solution: government intervention. If recent backlash to a Federal Trade Commission report is any indication, that assertion couldn’t be more wrong.