Fair and Balanced?

By BonnieBlueFlag

Well, it's just a couple of days until the final presidential debate, and I feel like it is the 80s and 90s again. We are back in the era when you would watch a candidate or politician on TV, and then listen to the network news anchors tell you what you "really" heard. However, the speech that you watched, never seemed to be the same speech that the "news anchor" saw and heard.

For a few short years we had the FOX news network with their motto of "Fair and Balanced," which was all we ever asked. People like Tony Snow and Brit Hume became household names, when we discovered that they could report on a speech or event without changing the meaning or intent of that speech. They seemed to understand that we were an audience who could think for ourselves, all we wanted was some additional facts with regard to current events, or some historical context.

But, as I said at the outset, we are back to an era when everyone including FOX news wants to spoon feed us their liberal interpretation of events.

Brit Hume a childhood friend of John Kerry can no longer present a balanced view of the debates. Twice last week he and his "All Star Panel" pronounced that Kerry and/or Edwards had won the debates, when nothing could have been further from the truth. They couldn't even see it as a possible tie, but only as Bush and Cheney having been soundly defeated.

What was defeated last week was the belief that FOX news could be "Fair and Balanced."