Originally posted by kestra
... don't forget that neocons Karl Rove and William Christopher now earn paycheques at Fox.
Surely you're not suggesting that Mr. Rove brings nothing to the table when it comes to discussing an election are you? Like him or wish him a slow painful death from terminal cancer, he definitely knows politics and brings some good insight to the innerworkings and strategys within campaigns that most would know nothing about. He and similar thinking individuals giving commentary are counterbalanced with the likes of Bob Beckel, Pat Caddell or Howard Wolfson. Does not Donna Brazile earn her paycheck from ABC?

I personally don't care too much for Coulter and Michelle Malkin is only the slightest bit more tolerable. But they are no more to the far right than Keith Olbermann, Dan Rather, Chris Matthews or Jim Lehrer is to the far left. So if Fox News(all by itself) leans more right than left, is it not offset by it's dozen or so Democrat Party media outlets posing as news channels out there in TV land? As far as being 'Fair & Balanced', if the other stations set the mean for political bias in reporting, then that slogan holds pretty damn true. They probably give more time to Democrats than our 'Big 3' networks give to Republicans, combined.

Originally posted by kestra He must think the world and Americans are stupid enough to believe him when he says his empire hasn't really done anything to shape political agendas. News organizations, like his (as he says in Leira's YouTube post) can only shape the agenda "in a limited way".
What, shape it in a way similar to what CBS did with the DUI story in '00? Or shaping public opinion with the forged documents of '04?