If you looked at it rationally (is that possible for the left?) the only information available to the citizens of the U.S. during the 20th century was filtered through liberal left leaning editors (and sometimes the government). Walter Cronkite was voted "the most trusted man in America" because America didn't have any basis for comparison. Everything changed when Rush Limbaugh came on the scene in the late 80's and the left has been whining about the unfairness of not being able to control the entire media ever since. The left still owns most of the mulch media and ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS MSNBC, Al Jazeera and freaking Hollywood and they whine about Fox.