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Fox News has "remained the most objective of all the cable networks"

Saturday April 5, 2008

Categories: Politics

OK, all you lefties who come here complaining about Fox News (and for the record I want it noted that I am not employed by Fox Broadcasting and that I don't get my news from Fox News, I get it from the Internet exclusively because I can get more indepth reports), note who said that, it wasn't a Republican. It was Ed Rendell:

In a recent appearance on Fox News—not exactly considered friendly territory for the Democrats—he congratulated the network for having done "the fairest job [and] remained the most objective of all the cable networks." In an interview with me, the governor was again in media-critic mode. "It took Saturday Night Live to bring some fairness to this election," Rendell said, referring to the show's now famous skit lampooning the media's crush on Obama. "It's stunning. Does Keith Olbermann get checks from the Obama campaign?"
Or the DNC or Moveon.org?

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anonymous reincarnate
April 6, 2008 1:44 AM

oh please...

first, i don't expect olberman, moveon, or the dnc to be any more balanced than o'reilly, lgf, or the rnc.

second, gov. rendell is a top clinton supporter and he's using the same line that her campaign has been for so long now that the press has scrutinized her but not obama. i doubt that his opinion is very objective, either. with fox news beating in the "hussein" middle name and the race issue against obama (which are toothless attacks that have nothing to do with the issues) it surely benefits clinton's campaign.

Anonymous
April 6, 2008 9:05 PM

I've generally held that a network which has to constantly assert that it is "fair and balanced" is a bit like those countries that claim to be democratic people's republics.

It's evidence they are none of the above.

And Ed Rendell isn't exactly a non-partisan source for the reasons cited above.

Michele McGinty
April 6, 2008 10:08 PM

Well, I'm already on the record as saying that no one can be objective or balanced because we bring our presuppositions into the mix whether we realize it our not.

yelladawgNC
April 8, 2008 9:14 AM

Michelle, you've bought in to a postmodern moral relativism? Do you really think there are no degrees of objectivity and subjectivity, that there's no difference between someone who really TRIES to be fair and balanced, taking her own biases into account as much as possible, and people like those at Fox News who deliberately distort, smear and vilify for political purposes and material gain under the guise of being fair and balanced?

Lowell
April 10, 2008 7:42 PM

Objective? Well, they do object to everything American. They object to religious freedom. They object to reproductive freedom. They object to gender equality. They object to racial equality. Objective? Only in that sense. They're a mouthpiece for the GOP and White House. All they're missing are the little emblems up in the corner, like the Lenin emblems Pravda used to sport.

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