[Jdanz]

i agree, but their owners are usually conservative.

The above would lead me to believe that they're more pro-right then pro=left, but really i believe they're pro-profits.

really their politics aren't even politics they're marketing. They'll play whatever story/angle will get them viewers. Since the Nixon era the most popular angle has been anti-establisment, whoever is in office gets criticised. I don't think the mainstream media does this because they don't like whoever the president happens to be, but because people are far more likely to watch news about dishonesty and scanadal then the typically mundane reality.

The typical idea is what are you more likely to report on/watch, a car on fire or one that's not. Regardless of the porportion of cars on fire at any given time, you're gonna see a lot more of the cureently exploding on the news, then those sitting at idle.