[Overpaid Slacker]

Hey, we'd all like to think for ourselves; Bozell's (and others') point is that the leftie agendists in mainstream newsmedia are doing our thinking for us; not only in the "slant" but in the editorial function of deciding what makes it to the "news" or not. The media have limited success in telling people what to think, but are nearly universally successful in telling people what to think about.

"Neither side has the edge on defining the American Way", to the extent it means anything, is a canard to silence the inquiry into whether in fact there are biases in the newsmedia and, if so, what, if anything to do about it.

"George W. Bush is far from being the best person in the White House, and the idea of Cheney with his superior and smug attitude for four more years acting as puppet master really scares me." Yeah, that's thinking for yourself; no mediamenticide there... C'mon, you're your own undoing. If thinking for yourself and not being spoonfed spin is your avowed purpose, Bozell's analysis and critiques ought to be interesting to you.

If, however, you usurp the mantle of objectivity bordering on omniscience to deride those with whom you disagree, you've become what you despise. And it has a label.

Please provide us with your sealed-in-the-envelope "correct" definitions of conservative and liberal. We await enlightenment with bated breath from the arbiter of such matters. 'Til then, we'll go on, unshackled by having to have a label for every occasion and a pigeonhole for every notion. What is the point? I submit that it's not the pedantry.

JP