aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Fox News admits bias
No fair-minded person actually believes that Fox News is unbiased, so pretending that it is calls for steely corporate resolve. On occasion, this vigilance pays off. Last year, for example, the Wall Street Journal actually ran a correction after its news pages described Fox News, accurately, as “a network sympathetic to the Bush cause and popular with Republicans.” Getting one of this country’s most prestigious newspapers to state that up is down and black is white is no small public-relations victory, and if we can’t admire Fox News’ candor, we can at least marvel at its ability to remain on message. Or rather, we could admire it, before [Fox News’ London bureau chief] Scott Norvell went and shot his big mouth off.
Here’s the quote:
Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O’Reilly.
It was published in the Wall Street Journal’s European edition on May 20. That was 5 days before the Fox Freudian slip in which Fox News anchor David Asman asked Sen. Trent Lott’s (R-MS) “if we should have done it and if we had the votes to do it” why comprimise?
These guys are drunk with success, so much so that they get careless and the truth comes out.
