Monday, March 14, 2005

Here's your ammo, liberal soldiers

The Washington Post reports that 73% of stories on Fox News [bugmenot] include some editorializing by the anchor or reporter. Examples include:
Last March, Fox reporter Todd Connor said that "Iraq has a new interim constitution and is well on its way to democracy."

"Let's pray it works out," said anchor David Asman.
The executive producer fires back: "They're, number one, Americans, and number two, human beings, as well as journalists."

Here's the thing: the whole Fox vs. CNN (or whatever news source you personally believe in -- the study quoted in the article doesn't mention the BBC) debate reminds me a lot of the 2000 presidential election, in the sense that in choosing between the two things offered to you misses an essential point, that there is something better out there.

In other news, newspaper stories only included anonymous sources 7% of the time -- down from 29% in 2003.

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