Does Fox Ever Make 'Mistakes' That Favor Dems?
The recent "mistakes" by Fox News Channel -- encapsulated in a Yahoo News article and at watchdog site Media Matters -- would be a little more believable as inadvertent errors if they all didn't buttress a pro-GOP, anti-Obama ideological point of view.
The same goes for MSNBC, which was also forced to apologize after airing obviously photo-shopped pictures of Sarah Palin.
Hey, 24-hour news cycles are a bitch, and the gnomes working behind the scenes are running as fast as they can to keep feeding the demand. Understood.
But at Fox in particular, there's been a pattern of "mistakes" that all point in the same direction -- such as making GOP rallies look bigger, crowds for Palin book signings more jubilant and enormous, and running a six-month-old clip of Vice President Joe Biden that painted him in a negative light.
Fox host Sean Hannity summed up the misleading video that aired on his program -- after being espied by "The Daily Show" -- by saying, "We screwed up." Maybe, but that assertion would be more believable if the network ever seemed to screw up in a way that accidentally favored Democrats -- or even labeled some disgraced Democrat as a Republican, as the channel did in reverse with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. I mean, seriously, what are the odds?
Hell, in Monopoly even the bank occasionally makes an error in your favor. If Fox is truly fair and balanced, one would think its mistakes -- and by that I mean the ones that it has actually apologized for -- would exhibit at least a shade of balance over the long run as well. Otherwise, the recent foul-ups at FNC and MSNBC say more about the atmosphere in those newsrooms than anything else.
And of course, if I'm wrong, I'll pretend I work for a cable network and apologize.





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