Friday, October 01, 2004
Fair and Balanced? Yeah Right
Fox News tells us that it plays it straight when it comes to politics. It does not choose sides and it is as fair to one side as the other.
However, a moment of candor shows Fox's real nature (as if it was a mystery to any thinking person). On their website today, there was a story by Mr fair Carl Cameron, who is covering the Kerry campaign, that purported to be portions of a stump speech given by John Kerry today. Some examples:
"Women should like me! I do manicures" and in a comparison between him and Bush, Kerry was purported to have said: "I'm metrosexual--he's a cowboy."
When called on it, Fox News lamely retracted the story on their website:
Earlier Friday, FOXNews.com posted an item purporting to contain quotations from Kerry. The item was based on a reporter’s partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice.
Now remember, when CBS got caught relying on a fake memo, Fox News was the first to howl that it was clear that Dan Rather could not be fair when covering Bush. Where is the equal shame that Carl Cameron cannot be fair covering Kerry? And you know what? Fox loyalists will see nothing wrong with this. Nothing.
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However, a moment of candor shows Fox's real nature (as if it was a mystery to any thinking person). On their website today, there was a story by Mr fair Carl Cameron, who is covering the Kerry campaign, that purported to be portions of a stump speech given by John Kerry today. Some examples:
"Women should like me! I do manicures" and in a comparison between him and Bush, Kerry was purported to have said: "I'm metrosexual--he's a cowboy."
When called on it, Fox News lamely retracted the story on their website:
Earlier Friday, FOXNews.com posted an item purporting to contain quotations from Kerry. The item was based on a reporter’s partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice.
Now remember, when CBS got caught relying on a fake memo, Fox News was the first to howl that it was clear that Dan Rather could not be fair when covering Bush. Where is the equal shame that Carl Cameron cannot be fair covering Kerry? And you know what? Fox loyalists will see nothing wrong with this. Nothing.
