Originally Posted by kerry

If by 'left' we mean some variation on Communist, State Socialist, Libertarian Socialist or Anarchist, can you point to any commentators or columnists in the mainstream media that are one of those things or any newspaper or magazine or TV network. I can't. Mother Jones, or the Nation might fit close to some of those but they aren't mainstream. Hence the mainstream media is not hugely left. It only looks left from the far right.
There's no newspaper in the US that remotely resembles this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Humanit%C3%A9