Fox & Friends latest to praise Tapper as a "great reporter" for his defense of Fox
October 21, 2009 7:44 am ET
From the October 21 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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According the PEW survey Fox just posted, that seems to hold water. That survey doesn't show that Fox is more balanced it shows that Conservatives are unbalanced.
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FoxNews leads MSM in reporting stories that are Republican Talking Points against Pres. Obama and Democrats, and not real political "NEWS". FoxNews is "NOT" touching the RTP that the WH made, just their made-up "NEWS" part - why? Uh, oh. Mr. Gibbs was right, and Jake Tapper at ABC along with Joe Scarborough at MSNBC proved him right, LOL.
Most of these studies have the intention of being fair, but the premises they are founded upon would probably cause both sides to disagree. I remember several years back, a conservative told me that Fox was fair and balanced because of a study done. I looked at the study and the main measurements of the study. One of those measurements determining network partisanship was based on how many times an organization was mentioned during the newscast by each network. These organizations were rated beforehand based on how many times representatives of each party mentioned them. Therefore, organizations such as the ACLU, along with several other "liberal" organizations, were rated as nonpartisan or conservative, which the conservative individual disputed. The moral of the story is that studies conducted on highly contested issues, like partisanship of networks, are going to be based on assumptions that are often incorrect and only skew results.