Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Hannity Ignores Big Stories


I haven't been home this evening, so this may have been addressed in today's Hannity and Colmes, but it is telling that the program did not address yesterday's two top stories. The program routinely ignores stories that are detrimental to Conservatives, until they can no longer be ignored.

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The resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the arrest of Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) dominated yesterday’s news cycle. All three network evening news shows — ABC, CBS, and NBC — covered the stories. Both The New York Times and Washington Post put the Gonzales resignation on the front page, and covered the Craig story.

Yet both reports were largely ignored yesterday by Sean Hannity. On the top of his Fox News show last night, Hannity promised his audience a discussion on Gonzales’s resignation. He began the show by playing the clip of Gonzales’s press conference, adding, “The attorney general resigns. Will this quiet the administration’s critics? All of that, plus the controversy over the new Katie Couric book.”

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