The executives of media giants like Time Warner, Time magazine, Newsweek, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, cable channels like CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, etc., met to discuss conservative versus liberal viewpoints in their presentations, a balance that is supposedly required by FCC standards es[ecially in the case of the broadcast industry to go on enjoying its monopoly status at the expense of taxpayers. Celebrities and politicians, among others, have often complained that they are not seriously covered by the media, a curious charge considering the amount of time devoted by the media to their comings and goings, most of which amounts to fluff. There is wide agreement that the media fail to satisfy the public's expectations of what a responsible communications system should be doing in a so-called free society. Meanwhile, following to the letter the rulebook of how to intimidate the mainstream liberals, self-impressed, overpaid rightwing hypocrites and propaganda agents like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity constantly castigate the media for its putative liberal bias. This is an old and groundless charge cynically propagated by the GOP noise machine in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, since the media rarely stray outside its self-imposed boundaries, all of which are first and foremost defined as an unconditional defense of the status quo--a bourgeois, pro-capitalism status quo, that is.