Media Bias

The conventional "wisdom" among many liberals is that Fox News is a right-wing outfit.  Of course, when you confront one of those liberals, it always turns out that they’ve never actually even watched the Fox News Channel.  And any rational person -- liberal, conservative, or independent -- who has watched Fox News knows that the "Fair and Balanced" motto is actually accurate.

Conservatives (and many independents and some liberals) believe that the problem is the opposite: that aside from Fox, TV news consists of mostly left-wing operations.

Today, this from the LA Times:

Although MSNBC may be deliberately courting the liberal extremists with its star Olbermann and his on-air anti-Republican blasts, Fox News has actually been mending fences with Democrats, recently hiring former Hillary Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson as a commentator. And there is evidence that Fox News’ audience is in fact far less politically skewed than either CNN’s or MSNBC’s. A survey this month from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that 39% of Fox News’ viewers were Republican, 33% Democratic. CNN was 51% Democratic and just 18% Republican, while MSNBC was 45%-18% in favor of Democrats.

The LA Times here is trying to make it sound like Fox had to "mend fences" with the Democrats, when the truth is that Fox has tons of Democratic commentators, probably about as many as they have Republican commentators.  But of course, you’d need to actually watch Fox News to know the truth about it.  For extreme liberals, knowing the truth about Fox News is not important; better to attack Fox without factual basis simply because they don’t toe the liberal line like the other news outlets.