Clinton supporter Taylor Marsh says she still believes Fox is staffed by "conservatives," but also says she thinks Obama will end his Fox boycott soon and praises the network for its treatment of Clinton:
There's been a progressive ban on all things Fox for a very long time, for good reasons. But I walked away from that strategy when the only fair press Clinton was getting came on Fox. That doesn't mean they'll be "fair and balanced" to the Democrats during the general election. Because we all know that Brit Hume and company are conservatives. But including Juan Williams, Fox has been fair to Clinton, which is where my prism of judgment lies right now.
Talking Points Memo also posts a video complication highlighting Fox's negative reaction to John McCain's speech on the same night Obama wrapped up the nomination fight.
Meanwhile, conservative media site Newsbusters looks at a Pew survey of political bias in cable news coverage and finds that while Democrats and Republicans are split in their preference for MSNBC:
Far more Republicans (24%) than Democrats (10%) get most of their campaign news from Fox [News Channel], while the opposite is true for CNN: 24% of Democrats look to CNN compared with just 13% of Republicans.
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I agree whole-heartedly that Fox was by far and away the most fair, and I think they really enjoyed showing msnbc how to do it. right. The latter has been the Obama network to the point of orgasm and I doubt I'll ever watch them again. Olbermann's special comments bored me after the first one. They were poorly written and rambling.
The funny thing is that the bias at msnbc grew. It started with Matthews and after a bit Olbermann and Todd were in line. Then gradually Fineman and Wolfe, both of who I used to respect and enjoy, began throwing darts. The young women news readers like Contessa Brewer began to animate their readings with eye-rolling and hair tossing. I saw these as performances to placate the stars. They were all in the same fraternity and wasn't it fun?
Another thing I noticed was that Matthews and Olbermann tended to spend an entire hour excoriating Clinton, the panels on Fox tended to talk about a point for maybe five minutes and went on to something else.
Even cnn didn't belabor points as much as msnbc.
I know in the general election fox will not be as even as this, but I suspect there will still be disagreement among the people. No matter what, I'll never forget that when I wanted to people talk about the elections, basically the only one I could count on was the one Olbermann had spent months, even years, making fun of for being too biased. In my opinion both Olbermann and Matthews are very unstable people.
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 8, 2008 4:45 AM
Obama did end his ban of Fox about a month ago when he had an in depth interview on there; will be interesting to see if Fox actually does improve over the long run, though i do think that they have had some decent stuff recently, including the inclusion of NPR reporters in their Sun. morning discussions
Posted by: Hardison
| June 9, 2008 9:33 AM
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