Here is why I make sure my Introduction to Mass Media students understand that de-regulation in media ownership is not just a matter of money or business efficiency. As we lose our access to information from a variety of sources, news transforms to newspeak and the free press becomes a propaganda machine. Maybe that "access to the White House" so prized by many of our current television reporters isn't so much a way to get the news as a way to promulgate its manufacture by Chompsky's "New Mandarins." Sending 'Liberal Media' Truism to the Fact-Checker In an impressively researched and documented book, "What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News," he provocatively challenges this conservative wisdom as a mirage. He asserts that what Americans should really fear is the far better organized, more powerful and effective propaganda machine of the right that postulates the presumption of liberal bias through research groups, religious organizations, ideological news organizations and conservative personalities that "skews the entire discourse toward the right." "Unbeknownst to millions of Americans who continue to believe that the media are genuinely liberal ? or that conservatives and liberals are engaged in a fair fight of relative equality," Mr. Alterman writes, "liberals are fighting a near-hopeless battle in which they are enormously outmatched." Article from NYTimes may require you to register to read it.