Congress has regularly and consistently removed liberties from the people; perhaps if it tries to circumvent the First Amendment and force the media to always present the truth, it would, of course, cut its own throat since Congress cannot seem to tell the truth from a lie, nor what is constitutional from unconstitutional.

Perhaps Tauzin will realize he will be opening Pandora's Box. If he has any common sense, he will, anyway. I think Congress will be better off, and the American people shorted as usual, to just let the situation lie as it is rather than do that.

Plus, biasing is often determined by the reader. From my perspective, the most negative biasing was against Gore and very little against the thoroughly incompetent, spoiled rich brat, who has far more violations of drug usage, arrests, alcoholism, philandering, and just flat telling lie after lie - the Republican's choice (ugh) - Bush.

All the Sunday morning news shows seemed to favor Bush and to gasticate Gore as did most Internet publications I read, with the exception of AmPol. As far as bad reporting goes, the election of the president and v-p is not even close to what is dictated by the Constitution. Therefore, any reporting is bad since all forms of media ignored this simple fact.

Reporting for one and against the other is always indicative of bias when concerned with politicians since one would be hard pressed to find a member of the federal government who has not violated his/her oath of office.

One would also be hard pressed to find a Washington politician who has not helped remove liberties by extending the US Government's jurisdiction unconstitutionally into the 50 States.

Or to find one of the two major parties has not engaged in the same deceitful, unethical, illegal behaviors as the other party. Consider all the Republicans that were found to have done as bad or worse than Clinton. Actually, recall the problems the Republican Party had replacing one of their own, the corrupted House Speaker, Gingrich.

No, Congress will not tread into these waters of potential destruction of their corrupt ways. As it now stands, their corruption is protected by the media.

Step on the media too hard, though, and the media might actually react by telling the American people the truth concerning the IRS/BATF (yes, the same organization), the FBI's actual jurisdiction (not what has been created fraudulently), the real purpose of the wars on crime and drugs (both are unconstitutional), the DEA, the arming of US government organizations while attempting to disarm the citizens (along with suppressing the truth concerning the effectiveness of an armed populace against crime), practice military maneuvers in civilian populations, the actual jurisdiction of the federal government, and so on until the US Government is chained by its limits in the Constitution.

Is that likely to happen? Not in my lifetime. It surely is a marriage made in hell and both the federal government and the media know it and neither are likely to upset the status quo.