The surprisingly
zaftig looking Brett Baier was on
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Thursday night. Stewart once again deftly handled the interview, prodding and poking in just the right places over the extreme bias of FOX News. And just as predictibly, Baier lamely dodged and deflected, and tried to draw a distinction between the FOX
hard news and
commentary programming.
The truth is much more blurry. While Baier's and Shepard Smith's programs may be the closest things FOX has to balanced news, they themselves push the FOX "News" right-wing agenda. The selection of stories, the points to punch up, the "experts" they interview, and the use of Frank Luntzian language (not to mention the in-house advertising during the shows) make the bias
very clear. For the best demonstration of this bias, watch
America Live with Megyn Kelly, another allegedly "hard news" program. Inside of five minutes of
America Live, you can point to at least three or four things that practically SHOUT their bias.
My question to Baier would echo Stewart when he said that he wasn't alone in his opinon. FOX "News" does not have a fringey reputation as a mouthpiece for the right. They've got a
BOLD FACED ALL CAPS ITALIC reputation as such, and their
only defenders are their employees and hard-right wingers.
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