{"id":786,"date":"2004-10-19T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2004-10-19T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:04:03","slug":"not-fair-not-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Not Fair, Not Balanced."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FauxNews.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">It&#8217;s extraordinary, but I still receive Email from folks who <i>really<\/i> seem to believe that Fox is &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221;. They just <i>seem<\/i> like they favor Republicans, because the rest of the media is <i>so<\/i> liberal. Or so the folks tell me, many of whom also still believe Dubya is a man of his word and we may still find those WMD&#8217;s and Saddam probably <i>was<\/i> involved in 9\/11 and things really <i>are<\/i> going well in Iraq, except for that goddamn liberal media.<\/p>\n<p>Given the <i>real<\/i> Rightwing bias of that supposedly &#8220;Liberal&#8221; media, it&#8217;s probably a waste to even bother debunking the lie that is Fox &#8220;News&#8221;, but sometimes I just can&#8217;t help myself. After <i><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\">Media Matters<\/a><\/i> documented FNC&#8217;s &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; Convention coverage (where they gave <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/archives\/00000459.htm\">20% more live prime-time coverage<\/a> to the Republican Convention than they did for the Democrat Convention), it seems they&#8217;re still at it<\/a> with just two weeks to go before a national election. <i>Media Matters<\/i> once again <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200410190007\" target=\"_blank\">has the proof<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">On October 18, President George W. Bush delivered a speech in Marlton, New Jersey, on national security, and Senator John Kerry delivered a speech in Tampa, Florida, on health care. <b>FOX News Channel carried Bush&#8217;s speech live for 47 minutes<\/b> &#8212; four minutes more than MSNBC and eleven minutes more than CNN. Before going to live coverage of Kerry&#8217;s speech, FOX News Channel anchor Martha MacCallum said: &#8220;And now we take you directly for fair and balanced coverage in Tampa, Florida, where John Kerry will be speaking moments from now.&#8221; <b>FOX then carried Kerry&#8217;s speech live for just under 10 minutes<\/b> &#8212; 30 minutes less than MSNBC and 25 minutes less than CNN.<\/div>\n<p>Are those that claim to believe Fox is not biased just stupid? Or are they kidding themselves? Or do they know better, but just don&#8217;t give a fuck? Anything, after all, to win. What do <i>you<\/i> think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s extraordinary, but I still receive Email from folks who really seem to believe that Fox is &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221;. They just seem like they favor Republicans, because the rest of the media is so liberal. Or so the folks tell me, many of whom also still believe Dubya is a man of his word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}