Tony Snow on FNC…
Portfolio.com’s Jeff Bercovici blogs about Tony Snow’s appearance at the American Magazine Conference…
On his alma mater, Fox News: “There’s perceived bias on the part of Fox because they don’t treat conservatives as knuckle-dragging morons….I think the rap on Fox having a bias is an unfair one. My sense is rather than grousing with a winning formula, people ought to learn from them.”
If Tony Snow said it, it must be true.
Since he left the White House, I have never watched a White House press briefing. I watched all of his briefings either live or on video.
It seems many people feel as I do. There is little press coverage of Dana P.
Comment by Cella — October 29, 2007 @ 10:31 am
Snow’s right in one regard, Fox has a winning formula: Turn your news into talk radio and people will show up. Whether it is journalism or not is beside the point and isn’t even worth discussing.
Comment by Cory Strode — October 29, 2007 @ 10:34 am
Isn’t the very fact that one of Fox News’s news anchors hosted a conservative talk show and became press secretary for a republican president an example of potential bias at Fox?
Comment by Steve — October 29, 2007 @ 2:49 pm
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Hey how about what’s his face George Stephanopoulos being ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC’s Sunday morning news show This Week?
Comment by Lurker — October 29, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
What about Chris Mathews? He was a speech writer for Carter. How about George Stephanopoulos? You don’t think that people that were involved with politics moving into the press is something new do you?
Comment by Jeff — October 29, 2007 @ 3:21 pm
I like Tony Snow well enough but to say “if Tony Snow said it, it must be true” sounds a bit naive.
Comment by myview — October 29, 2007 @ 3:27 pm
Good point about Stephanopoulos. I think he tries too hard to be see as unbiased but ABC should never have hired his as anything but a expert/pundit, they made up for it with the hacktacular Halperin though.
On Matthews I’m drawing a clear distinction between commentator (which is quite sadly nearly every cable news name save for Blitzer or Smith), and news anchor. Snow spent years hosting weekend live and Fox News Sunday, both alleged news shows. Even after Wallace was hired Snow continued to do Weekend News Live only leaving after getting the Press Secretary job.
In short while Fox may argue that they’re not biased it’s everyone else, Snow has no standing to make that argument because he’s one of the examples of bias. It would be akin to Jeffrey Skilling making the claim that Enron didn’t cook the books that they were all completely ethical people.
Comment by Steve — October 29, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
Great point, Steve. My thoughts are, how long before Snow is back on Fox. He says he resigned the PS job to make his financial situation better, but I also thought you made more money working than you did being unemployed. Am I wrong?
Comment by Aaron — October 29, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
I’m sure Snow has a ton of options besides going back to tv. There’s book deals and speaking fees just to name a few. He could probably make more money doing that then going back to a set job like tv. Remember he’s now a former White House Press secretary. Think of how many thousands of dollars he could pull in speaking at colleges or at corporate retreats.
Comment by Steve — October 29, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
Number 6,
I am shocked, shocked that there is gambling at Rick’s,
and that someone believes that I really think that everything Tony Snow says is true!
Comment by Cella — October 29, 2007 @ 6:37 pm
Cella, I sometimes have dry humor that doesn’t always work. Trust me I didn’t think you actually meant it.
Comment by myview — October 29, 2007 @ 7:16 pm