From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 20:29:15 MST
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> --- gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> But that is exactly what FOX does! It's billed as neutral when it is
>> not. "News without the spin," they say.
>
> Untrue.
No, not untrue at all. FOX probably promotes itself as unbiased at least
once an hour. Have you ever spent a couple of days watching the channel?
I'm not saying that FOX makes a secret of its intentionally right-winged
biased editorials, but in general the network offers almost nothing from the
"other side."
Colmes (Hannity's supposed liberal nemesis on FOX) is an unphotogenic,
uncharismatic wimp who can barely articulate a clear sentence. He's there
just to serve as a placeholder and a punching bag. Colmes is FOX's "token
liberal."
CNN on the other hand offers some serious liberal opponents to debate
reasonable conservative guys like Tucker Carlson. I happen to really like
Tucker Carlson. And I also enjoy watching Carlson debate serious liberals
who know how to present an argument on "Crossfire". Such quality events
never happen on FOX.
Regarding Neil Cavuto's scathing ad hominem attack on the professor at FOX:
> I'll note here that you don't seem to be quoting anything the
> professor said in his letter to Cavuto. Such is evidence of bias.
Excuse me, Mike, but neither did Cavuto. I don't have any such information
about the professor's supposed letter. Cavuto told his audience only that
the professor had called or written to complain that Cavuto wears his
conservative bias on his sleeve. Cavuto then called the professor every name
in the book in a childish attack that would have earned a fifth grader
after-school detention. The professor was not even on the air at the time to
defend himself.
The best thing I can say about that incident is that Cavuto did not tell us
the professor's real name on television. But I'm sure that was only to avoid
a lawsuit.
-gts
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