In a message dated 11/13/2003 9:56:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Alan (I think) Colmes comes to mind, just off the top > of my head. > > I, for one, don't think Fox is unbiased. I think it's > about as biased as CNN or PBS - considerably less than > NPR, though, to be honest. It's just in the opposite > direction. The hysterical reaction to Fox, it seems > to me, has more to do with the sudden shock of the > leftist intelligentisia at finding that it doesn't > monopolize American information any more. > > Just wondering if you have read Al Frankin's new book. As you know he pretty much > takes apart Hannity and O'Reilly. You should know that Colmes was hired by Hannity > to be his "liberal" foil. Colmes is more centrist than anything else and for the > most part he is nothing at all. If this is the bes you can up with as "balance" at > Fox it is pretty much proof that Fox is biased. As to other outlets, I have heard > you say this before and I would like to see examples of the supposed bias of CNN and > the major networks. Frankin had students at your old school research things like the > number of negative stories about Bush and Gore and basically George got a free ride > and Al got bashed. Let us also be clear that Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch a avowed > conservative whose other outlets include The New York Post. Roger Ailes is (oh > excuse me was) an operative of the republican party and Brit Hume has let his > personal feelings be publically known in conservative publications (the Standard?. > Where is CNN's bias. Does a liberal own NBC? Do the major newreaders on these > networks make their political beliefs as apparent as Hume? By the way in Frankin's > book a survey of journalists found them to be slightly more liberal than the public > on some issues and more conservative on others.
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