No, liberality is not defined by whom one attacks. The range of political opinion can be determined in part by asking if there are media outlets willing to consistently challenge the existing government from one side of the political spectrum or the other. Since Blair is a Labourite and he is challenged from the left, this means that the media political spectrum in the UK is broader than the in the US.

No, liberality is also not assuming that the opposition is lying. In this instance, there is a fair amount of evidence that the Blair administration made claims in the document that justified their decision to war against Iraq that their own intelligence sources thought were exaggerated. The BBC called it 'sexed up'. A euphemism for lying in my opinion.
Again in this case, the media challenge to Blair is not coming from the right but from the left, at least at the Guardian.

The point I was making was the the New Democrats, the ones inspired by the Democratic Leadership Council, are rarely, if ever, challenged in the media outlets by critics from the left. This is not the case in some European countries where the political spectrum of the media is broader.

I conclude from this, that despite what Mike claims, and comparatively speaking, the US media is skewed to the right.

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