Most of us on here, especially those of us who also read Atrios or Media matters, know that there's no such thing as the "liberal media." It's simply a rhetorical crutch that conservatives use to explain away or outright ignore unpleasant news for their side. Now, the conservatives are unwittingly handing us a argument that blows their claim to pieces. It's called the Fairness Doctrine.
This Fairness Doctrine basically requires that a tv or radio station provide an opportunity for a rebuttal by someone with a view opposite to the one the station just aired. It need not be aired at the same time or for the same aount of time. Now, if the media are so overwhelmingly liberal, as is often claimed, the views that are being aired now are overwhelmingly leftist. If the Fairness Doctrine were reinstated, these liberal stations would be accountable to conservative viewers/listeners claims of biased and would be forced to provide the other side of the issue. If all these stations are really that liberal, than the doctrine would actually dilute the amount of liberal programming and increase the amount of conservative programming.
Look at this way: Let's say you thought Coca Cola was dominant at federal instuttions. (state parts, museums, military bases, court houses, federal office building vending machines and cafeterias). Let's also say you hated Coke and loved Pepsi. If someone proposed a rule that said upon complaint by a customer, the instution must offer the customer an opportunity to purchase Pepsi or face sanctions from a licensing body. Logically, you wouldnt' be dead set against this, since it would benefit Pepsi drinkers and work against Coke drinkers. Yet the right is doing the same thing with the Fairness Doctrine and simultaneously claiming the media are overwhelminlgy biased to the left.