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Article: Is Fox News Channel 'fair & balanced'? slogan?
- Article from:
- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- July 23, 2004
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Before taking its next commercial break, Fox News Channel offered
a glimpse of the Democratic presidential running mates in action.
Seen tossing around a football, John Edwards passed it to John Kerry,
who, only a few yards away, dropped it. Then, picking up the ball,
Kerry threw it back to Edwards. He dropped it.
This fleeting comic sequence -- which might as well have been
subtitled FOX NEWS ALERT: DEMOCRATS FUMBLE -- is typical of what Fox
News Channel employs as "Fair & Balanced" journalism. It aired
last Tuesday, by chance also the day a documentary premiered that
slammed Fox News Channel for right-wing bias and Bush administration
cheerleading.
Now, two groups associated with the ...