...and they WORK for people with very different views than they might hold personally, I doubt their alleged bias works the way you think it does; if anything it may be the reverse. ("I believe x so my boss probably believes y so I'd better report it that way.") (Got any figures on media OWNERSHIP leanings? Seriously.) And I can't believe that someone with as much sense as you, Susannah, would say that someone who is liberal, moderate or independent (and since when are the latter two "left"?) would find other lines of thought "inconceivable." That's part of the problem of leaning left, especially moderate left; by definition we're more tolerant of other lines of thought, though both ends of the spectrum have their own orthodoxies.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor