FNC’s 10th: Another review…
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders writes about FNC’s 10 years on the air…
AS FOX NEWS celebrates its 10-year anniversary, media watchers should appreciate how Fox, which tilts right, has provided balance to major new operations such as CNN and the New York Times, which tilt left.
Go to most newsrooms and you’ll find a staff that overwhelmingly voted for John Kerry in 2004, while the rest keep their politics to themselves lest they be considered biased. A survey of the Washington press corps found that 89 percent voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. It’s true, most reporters do their level best to tell a story straight and present both sides. To use Fox-speak, most reporters I know strive to be “fair and balanced.”
A good article that is, well, fair and balanced. Saunders is the lone conservative columnist writing for the San Franciso Chronicle (where Chris Matthews used to pen a column), and makes it clear that while she likes Fox, there are also a few things she does not like. She gives us an example of mainstream media bias in some remarks made by Linda Greenhouse, a NY Times reporter who does not distinguish between objective reporting and personal opinions, a practice not infrequently found with other liberal papers. This is something to read.
Comment by RGL — October 10, 2006 @ 12:29 pm