I generally don’t watch News Watch. It’s dreadful TV even by Fox News’ standards. At least their other shows aren’t boring.
Jon Scott, Eric Burns’ replacement, is a loyal lap dog. As poodles go, Scott is personable enough; however, he’s comically bad at masking the overwhelming conservative bias hanging over the show. In this clip, [...]
To listen to conservatives sanctimoniously thump their chests about media bias you’d think it really bothered them. Any whiff of liberalism – unless it’s getting slammed – certainly works them into a lather. Yet, the endless right-wing bias pouring out of Fox News doesn’t raise an eyebrow with this crowd. In fact, it’s hilarious to [...]
If you’re introduced to a retired prostitute is there any reason to bring up she’s not a virgin? Not really. In the same light, is there any reason to explicitly use “hypocrite” in a sentence whenever discussing a Fox News personality?
So let us suffer once more through a Fox News chorus of “liberal media bias” [...]
“[Brit Hume] created something that hadn’t existed before: a slight bias, for want of a better word, toward the right, as opposed to what we have on the shows that make so much news today, with an overwhelming bias either to the right or the left.” – Eric Burns
Eric Burns used to host Fox News’ [...]
“On the October 7 edition of Fox News Watch, host Eric Burns stated that ‘the St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald in Florida,’ as well as ABC News, all had ‘known about’ leaked copies of email messages allegedly sent by former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) to a 16-year-old male former congressional page, but he [...]
After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez spoke at the UN, pretty much all we heard on the news, especially from Fox, is they were pretty well received by the world body and even got applause, which brought about the usual angst against the UN.
Turns out the overly eager news media left a few things out, or [...]