Fair And Balanced

by sean on April 30, 2004

It’s official, FNC is the news channel of choice for the Bush administration.

Vice President Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference call last night with tens of thousands of Republicans who were gathered across the country to celebrate a National Party for the President Day organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Fox News styles its coverage as “fair and balanced,” but it has a heavy stable of conservative commentators that makes it a favorite around the White House. It is unusual for a president or vice president to single out a commercial enterprise for public praise.
…”It’s easy to complain about the press — I’ve been doing it for a good part of my career,” Cheney said. “It’s part of what goes with a free society. What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they’re more accurate in my experience, in those events that I’m personally involved in, than many of the other outlets.”

Yeah, it’s easy to complain about the press that routinely covers the most banal stories about the Democratic challenger while calling them the “liberal media.” Most of what FNC passes off as “news” is just conservative commentary. So if you’re in the choir, and you like to be preached to, turn to the Fox News Channel.

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LQ April 30, 2004 at 8:48 am

I watch Fox News for opposition research ;)

sean April 30, 2004 at 9:15 am

I used to watch it for the same reason. But Hannity and O’Reily became too much for me to handle.

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