Does the mainstream media have a liberal or conservative bias?

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I'm often amused by the talk of the mainstream media biasing liberal or conservative. Those on the right insist it is liberal and those on the left the opposite.

Personally I think it is a false dichotomy and that it should hopefully be irrelevant to most of the people here who have the capacity to sort all of the information on their own. Of course there is bias, but 'liberal' and 'conservative' aren't the most accurate or important descriptors for such bias. Your thoughts?

Edit: The poll is for television news only (network and otherwise), but the question of the thread extends to print, radio, and other mediums.