-Caveat Lector-
"FAIR"??!!?? Since WHEN has the left wing, Godless
media EVER been "FAIR"...not to mention even
microscopically HONEST???... so there is ONE channel
that expresses opinions and biases on the other side
of the coin and THAT is worthy of a big fuss?!?!...I
think not.... ;oD
--- William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:15:39 -0400
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: FAIR-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [FAIR-L] The Most Biased Name in News:
> Fox News Channel's
> extraordinary ri
> ght-wing tilt
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> FAIR-L
> Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
> Media analysis, critiques and news
> reports
>
>
>
>
>
> SPECIAL FAIR REPORT--
>
> THE MOST BIASED NAME IN NEWS:
> Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt
>
> July 2, 2001
>
> Fox News Channel wraps itself in slogans of
> journalistic objectivity like
> "Fair and balanced" and "We report, you decide," but
> a new FAIR report finds
> a dramatic right-wing tilt in the network's news.
>
> The full report is in three parts, all available
> online:
>
> --The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's
> extraordinary right-wing
> tilt
> --Fox's Slanted Sources: Conservatives, Republicans
> far outnumber others
> --Bill O'Reilly's Sheer O'Reillyness: Don't call him
> conservative-- but he
> is
> http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html
>
> In a study of interviewees on the network's
> signature political news show,
> Special Report with Brit Hume, FAIR found that of 56
> partisan guests in a
> five month period, 50 were Republicans and six were
> Democrats. That's 89
> percent Republican, a greater than 8 to 1 imbalance.
>
> But Special Report-- originally created as a daily
> hour-long update on the
> 1998 Clinton sex scandals-- doesn't just skew
> Republican, it skews
> conservative: During the course of the study, 65 of
> the show's total of 92
> guests (71 percent) were avowed conservatives.
> Conservatives outnumbered all
> other points of view, including non-political
> guests, by a factor of more
> than 2 to 1.
>
> What's more, the show featured only eight female
> guests and six people of
> color, making for a guest list that was 91 percent
> male and 93 percent
> white.
>
> The darling of conservative politicos, Fox News
> Channel's entire editorial
> philosophy revolves around the idea that the network
> is an antidote to
> supposedly "liberal" mainstream media like CNN. But
> the facts just don't
> back Fox up. As a comparison to Special Report, FAIR
> studied interviewees on
> CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports over the same period, and
> found that of 67
> partisan guests, 38 were Republicans and 29
> Democrats-- 57 percent
> Republican versus Special Report's 89 percent. About
> 32 percent of Wolf
> Blitzer's total guests were avowed conservatives,
> versus 65 percent on
> Special Report.
>
> Fox often has trouble keeping the partisanship of
> its main news
> personalities in check. In 1996, for instance, Fox
> anchor Tony Snow endorsed
> Bob Dole for president in a Republican National
> Committee magazine. At the
> 2000 Republican Convention, Snow-- ostensibly a
> journalist covering a news
> event-- gave a speech before to Republican Youth
> Caucus. Trent Lott followed
> up with a cheer of "How about Tony Snow in 2008?"
>
> The on-air bias is often just as pronounced.
> Liberals come in for regular
> bashing on the show of Fox's star performer, Bill
> O'Reilly. Since 1998, The
> O'Reilly Factor has run an astounding 56 segments
> about Jesse Jackson-- that
> means that one out of every 12 episodes of the show
> featured a Jackson
> segment, many with themes like "How personal are
> African-Americans taking
> the moral failures of Reverend Jesse Jackson?"
>
> During the 2000 election, O'Reilly wondered whether
> Al Gore was running "on
> a quasi-socialistic platform" with "work and
> production being supervised by
> the government." After the election, O'Reilly's
> softball treatment of the
> new administration was a marked contrast to his
> scrutiny of Clinton--
> "President Bush ran on the slogan 'reformer with
> results,'" said O'Reilly.
> "That sounds good to me." So much for the "No spin
> zone."
>
>
> Check out the full report at:
> http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html
>
> ----------
>
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> FAIR ON THE AIR: FAIR's founder Jeff Cohen is a
> regular panelist on the Fox
> News Channel's "Fox News Watch," which airs which
> airs Saturdays at 7 pm and
> Sundays at 11 am (Eastern Standard Time). Check your
> local listings.
>
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>
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>
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>
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