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Let me ask you a question, if you don't mind. And I'd love to hear the opinion of others on the ping list.

Here in the U.S. our media is very liberal, but now we have lots of ways to go around them for our news and opinions -- talk radio (especially Rush Limbaugh), a few newspapers and magazines (like the Wall Street Journal editorial page), and of course the internet (including FR, blogs, email, etc).

How does this compare to East European countries. Is there a monopoly on news and opinion? Is it a left-wing monopoly? Or are there ways for a large variety of views to be heard by the people?

Sometimes there is situation that national TV is little dependent of the current government but this tendency slowly coming to the end. Well in Poland we have all kind of private medias, leftist, more liberal and rightist. Media are always dependent of their owners vision and interest. I think that similar situation is in all democratic Eastern European states. Of course in Belarus for example there is minimal existence of free newspapers (often banned for a while) and there is no free TV or radio.