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FAIR-L Fairness Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports SPECIAL FAIR REPORT-- THE MOST BIASED NAME IN NEWS: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt July 2, 2001 Fox News Channel wraps itself in slogans of journalistic objectivity like Fair and balanced and We report, you decide, but a new FAIR report finds a dramatic right-wing tilt in the network's news. The full report is in three parts, all available online: --The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt --Fox's Slanted Sources: Conservatives, Republicans far outnumber others --Bill O'Reilly's Sheer O'Reillyness: Don't call him conservative-- but he is http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html In a study of interviewees on the network's signature political news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, FAIR found that of 56 partisan guests in a five month period, 50 were Republicans and six were Democrats. That's 89 percent Republican, a greater than 8 to 1 imbalance. But Special Report-- originally created as a daily hour-long update on the 1998 Clinton sex scandals-- doesn't just skew Republican, it skews conservative: During the course of the study, 65 of the show's total of 92 guests (71 percent) were avowed conservatives. Conservatives outnumbered all other points of view, including non-political guests, by a factor of more than 2 to 1. What's more, the show featured only eight female guests and six people of color, making for a guest list that was 91 percent male and 93 percent white. The darling of conservative politicos, Fox News Channel's entire editorial philosophy revolves around the idea that the network is an antidote to supposedly liberal mainstream media like CNN. But the facts just don't back Fox up. As a comparison to Special Report, FAIR studied interviewees on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports over the same period, and found that of 67 partisan guests, 38 were Republicans and 29 Democrats-- 57 percent Republican versus Special Report's 89 percent. About 32 percent of Wolf Blitzer's total guests were avowed conservatives, versus 65 percent on Special Report. Fox often has trouble keeping the partisanship of its main news personalities in check. In 1996, for instance, Fox anchor Tony Snow endorsed Bob Dole for president in a Republican National Committee magazine. At the 2000 Republican Convention, Snow-- ostensibly a journalist covering a news event-- gave a speech before to Republican Youth Caucus. Trent Lott followed up with a cheer of How about Tony Snow in 2008? The on-air bias is often just as pronounced. Liberals come in for regular bashing on the show of Fox's star performer, Bill O'Reilly. Since 1998, The O'Reilly Factor has run an astounding 56 segments about Jesse Jackson-- that means that one out of every 12 episodes of the show featured a Jackson segment, many with themes like How personal are African-Americans taking the moral failures of Reverend Jesse Jackson? During the 2000 election, O'Reilly wondered whether Al Gore was running on a quasi-socialistic platform with work and production being supervised by the government. After the election, O'Reilly's softball treatment of the new administration was a marked contrast to his scrutiny of Clinton-- President Bush ran on the slogan 'reformer with results,' said O'Reilly. That sounds good to me. So much for the No spin zone. Check out the full report at: http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html -- Feel free to respond to FAIR ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). We can't reply to everything, but we will look at each message. We especially appreciate documented example of media bias or censorship. And please send copies of your email correspondence with media outlets, including any responses, to us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . FAIR ON THE AIR: FAIR's founder Jeff Cohen is a regular panelist on the Fox News Channel's Fox News Watch, which airs which airs Saturdays at 7 pm and Sundays at 11 am (Eastern Standard Time). Check your local listings. FAIR produces CounterSpin, a weekly radio show heard on over 130 stations in the U.S. and Canada. To find the CounterSpin station nearest you, visit http://www.fair.org/counterspin/stations.html . Please support FAIR by subscribing to our bimonthly magazine, Extra! For more information, go to: http://www.fair.org/extra/subscribe.html . Or call 1-800-847-3993. FAIR's INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: FAIR accepts internship applications for its New York office on a rolling basis. For more information, see: http://www.fair.org/internships.html You can subscribe to FAIR-L at our web site: http://www.fair.org , or by sending a subscribe FAIR-L enter your full name command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Our subscriber list is kept confidential. You may leave the list at any time-- just send a message with SIGNOFF FAIR-L in the body to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . FAIR
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-Caveat Lector- FAIR??!!?? Since WHEN has the left wing, Godless media EVER been FAIR...not to mention even microscopically HONEST???... so there is ONE channel that expresses opinions and biases on the other side of the coin and THAT is worthy of a big fuss?!?!...I think not ;oD --- William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:15:39 -0400 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: FAIR-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FAIR-L] The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary ri ght-wing tilt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAIR-L Fairness Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports SPECIAL FAIR REPORT-- THE MOST BIASED NAME IN NEWS: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt July 2, 2001 Fox News Channel wraps itself in slogans of journalistic objectivity like Fair and balanced and We report, you decide, but a new FAIR report finds a dramatic right-wing tilt in the network's news. The full report is in three parts, all available online: --The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt --Fox's Slanted Sources: Conservatives, Republicans far outnumber others --Bill O'Reilly's Sheer O'Reillyness: Don't call him conservative-- but he is http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html In a study of interviewees on the network's signature political news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, FAIR found that of 56 partisan guests in a five month period, 50 were Republicans and six were Democrats. That's 89 percent Republican, a greater than 8 to 1 imbalance. But Special Report-- originally created as a daily hour-long update on the 1998 Clinton sex scandals-- doesn't just skew Republican, it skews conservative: During the course of the study, 65 of the show's total of 92 guests (71 percent) were avowed conservatives. Conservatives outnumbered all other points of view, including non-political guests, by a factor of more than 2 to 1. What's more, the show featured only eight female guests and six people of color, making for a guest list that was 91 percent male and 93 percent white. The darling of conservative politicos, Fox News Channel's entire editorial philosophy revolves around the idea that the network is an antidote to supposedly liberal mainstream media like CNN. But the facts just don't back Fox up. As a comparison to Special Report, FAIR studied interviewees on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports over the same period, and found that of 67 partisan guests, 38 were Republicans and 29 Democrats-- 57 percent Republican versus Special Report's 89 percent. About 32 percent of Wolf Blitzer's total guests were avowed conservatives, versus 65 percent on Special Report. Fox often has trouble keeping the partisanship of its main news personalities in check. In 1996, for instance, Fox anchor Tony Snow endorsed Bob Dole for president in a Republican National Committee magazine. At the 2000 Republican Convention, Snow-- ostensibly a journalist covering a news event-- gave a speech before to Republican Youth Caucus. Trent Lott followed up with a cheer of How about Tony Snow in 2008? The on-air bias is often just as pronounced. Liberals come in for regular bashing on the show of Fox's star performer, Bill O'Reilly. Since 1998, The O'Reilly Factor has run an astounding 56 segments about Jesse Jackson-- that means that one out of every 12 episodes of the show featured a Jackson segment, many with themes like How personal are African-Americans taking the moral failures of Reverend Jesse Jackson? During the 2000 election, O'Reilly wondered whether Al Gore was running on a quasi-socialistic platform with work and production being supervised by the government. After the election, O'Reilly's softball treatment of the new administration was a marked contrast to his scrutiny of Clinton-- President Bush ran on the slogan 'reformer with results,' said O'Reilly. That sounds good to me. So much for the No spin zone. Check out the full report at: http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html -- Feel free to respond to FAIR ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). We can't reply to everything, but we will look at each message. We especially appreciate documented example of media bias or censorship. And please send copies of your email correspondence with media outlets, including any responses, to us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . FAIR ON THE AIR: FAIR's founder Jeff Cohen is a regular panelist on the Fox News Channel's Fox News Watch, which airs which airs Saturdays at 7 pm and Sundays at 11 am (Eastern Standard Time). Check your local listings. FAIR produces CounterSpin, a weekly radio show heard on over 130 stations in the U.S. and Canada. To find the CounterSpin station
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In a message dated 7/2/01 6:46:32 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so there is ONE channel that expresses opinions and biases on the other side of the coin and THAT is worthy of a big fuss?!?!... Well at least you admit their obvious bias. Bill.
