Thursday, November 6, 2008

More on Fox News

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The election’s over, and not that we need any further evidence of Fox bias, but....

From FAIR (Freedom & Acccuracy In Reporting)

Fox News Nailbiter!
Conservative channel pushed notion of a tightening election
11/6/08

One of the most glaring peculiarities about the Fox News Channel’s campaign coverage in the run-up to the November 4 election was the channel’s frequent insistence, in the waning days of the campaign, that the election was remarkably close, with Republican John McCain surging.

In reality, few polls suggested this was happening (see PollingReport.com; Pollster.com), but Fox chose to give a handful of outlying, unrepresentative surveys considerable attention. It was as if the channel were less interested in accurately reporting the state of the campaign than in presenting an alternate reality that would be pleasing to partisan viewers.

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Click here to see the rest of the story, including examples in the campaign’s final days.

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