News Hounds

Fox News staff just can’t help it ... some of them are congenitally incapable of being neutral. And the network's policies surely don't help.

Berger Story on MSNBC

I tuned into MSNBC at 12:25 p.m. to see how they're handling the Berger story. I learned something. They were discussing the Berger flap in terms of timing of the story. The incident when Berger was seen by employees taking documents from the National Archives occurred in October of 2003. Also, the Feds know what was in the few pages he didn't give back that he "inadvertently lost" because "they have copies elsewhere." Also, there is no indication of a security problem, or that Berger will be prosecuted. The host asked why they waited 9 months to break this story.

Comment: Very good questions with the democratic convention next week. Could it be politics, pure and simple?

Love the Messenger but not the Message

At 4:06 p.m. ET today (July 1, 2004) on Your World w/Neil Cavuto, the show cut to video (no audio) of President Bush delivering a speech in the White House. Cavuto told the viewers Bush was marking the 40th anniversary of the "civil rights movement" (more accurately, the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964).

Reading the Fine Print

Fox News doesn't overlook any means of filtering the news it presents in such a way as to favor George Bush and the Republicans. Their efforts today (July 1) even extended to the editing of the news ticker at the bottom of their screen.

It's a Love Fest, but Literally, Don't Let Bad News Get in the Way!

It's 11:16 p.m. ET on June 28, 2004, the day "sovereignty" was transferred to Iraq "two days early!" Approximately five hours ago, Al Jazeera reported that Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, a US soldier captured in Iraq in April (but forgotten by the press), has been murdered. Since then, the BBC.com, Haaretz, and London's The Guardian report the same. No US television news outlet that I'm flipping to is, or has, carried this news yet.

At 8:30 p.m ET, (more than three hours ago), I saw breaking news about this on tonights BBC "World News" broadcast.