He Fights `Myth' of A Liberal Media

For the last 10 years, Norman Solomon has battled a big,fire-breathing dragon that is invisible to most people. So far, thatdragon - the conservative bias of the mainstream news media - seemsto be winning. In fact Solomon's toughest job is in convincingpeople that it really exists.

After all, as conservatives like to point out, studies show thatjournalists are a liberal bunch. So what gives?

"It's significant that the myth of the liberal media has beenpropagated largely via the media itself," Solomon says. "The samestudies show that though most reporters and working journalists voteDemocrat, as you go up the (media) hierarchy, it gets more and moreconservative, …