I'm in the US. In 87 most people already viewed the more 'standard' news as being liberal, with that year being the beginning of Rush Limbaugh syndication. I'm not arguing that one has more or is worse than the other, they both exist and have existed. However at the time, the conservative are the ones who took off in exposure. I didn't say it was a matter of who started it, just which took off with that doctrine being repealed.