Maybe it's worth examining the notion that if modern Liberals are not the Liberals of Truman's time, the modern Republicans are not the Republicans of Eisenhower's time. I had read that, by modern standards, Eisenhower could be considered a Liberal; as could Bob Dole of the 1970s, whose voting record then would seem Liberal today. So to try to evaluate media in respect to politicians, while politicians have been trending further and further to the right, does seem a little disingenuous to say the least. None of these labels represents absolute positions, so it seems that all the bias-tracking does is to evaluate the evolution of words. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html