As this BuzzFlash editorial points out, Corporate Media is big business and all about money and not the least liberal. Claims by conservatives of a liberal bias in the media are nothing more than a distraction from what is really happening. Why hasn't the "liberal" media come down hard on the well-documented abuses of the Constitution by the Bush administration? Money, folks. Plain and simple.

We'll say this one more time, Big Media -- which sets the frames of public perception in the United States -- may occasionally write an expose on some corruption among Republicans, but it is endlessly supportive of the White House propoganda line of the day.  More importantly, after seven years of verifiable deceit and illegalities, it still covers Bush with kid gloves and provides him with a mantle of legitimacy and credibility.

As BuzzFlash has pointed out many a time, Big Media is really just Big Business.  And Big Business needs the Republicans for tax breaks, deregulation, protections against anti-Trust charges, favorable financial legislation, special exemptions, etc.

As a case in point, the Chicago Tribune has benefitted from all of the above favors from the Bush White House.

In fact, just prior to the latest de-regulation drive by Martin, the three Republican commissioners on the FCC granted the Chicago Tribune another special waiver (the FCC Republicans recently passed more than 40 such "special" waivers) to continue cross-ownership of media.  Ostensibly, this was done to allow the acquisition of the Tribune Company by Chicago Billionaire Financier Sam Zell to proceed.