{"id":2101,"date":"2010-07-12T18:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2010-07-14T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:00:21","slug":"more-proof-that-fox-news-is-not-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"More Proof That Fox News Is Not News"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if any further evidence was needed…..<\/p>\n

Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post wrote a profile<\/a> of Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer. The piece began by making a completely unsupported assertion that Hemmer was “a middle-of-the-road guy.”<\/i> However, Kurtz quickly redeemed himself by pointing out that Hemmer’s record of fairness and\/or balance was something less than pure.<\/p>\n

“The first solo guest on every show but one, from June 1 through July 2, was a Republican or conservative — including Karl Rove (twice), Steve Forbes (twice), House GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, economist Art Laffer and officials from the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. Conservative commentators, such as John Fund and Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal and Byron York and Chris Stirewalt of the Washington Examiner, appeared by themselves. Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican who is a leading opponent of illegal immigration, was on three times. By contrast, a relative handful of Democratic lawmakers were given solo spots, while Democratic strategists were generally paired in debates with Republican counterparts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest of the article pretty much receded back into the sort of mushy puff piece for which Kurtz is well known. Kurtz didn’t even challenge the anchor, whom he described as having an “infectious grin and golly-gee demeanor,”<\/i> when Hemmer noted that…<\/p>\n

“A viewer needs to understand a story in a short period of time, otherwise they will zone out or they will change the station. Complexities are difficult to sell.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a good thing Hemmer doesn’t have to report on anything complex like a war in Afghanistan, a Supreme Court nomination, a teetering economy, or an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

You might also recall that Michael Clemente, senior vice president of Fox News, defines the hours<\/a> of 9am to 4pm, and 6pm to 8pm, as the dayparts that air straight news. So Hemmer’s 9:00am program is the springboard to Fox’s news day. And like the rest of the Fox News schedule, it is infested with right-wing bias. In this case the bias is delivered with “boyish enthusiasm”<\/i> and a comforting simplicity.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/a> Hemmer ventured off to Brian Kilmeade’s radio show to respond to charges of partisanship on his program. He blamed it on Democrats who, he says, refuse his invitations to appear.<\/p>\n

I hope he’s right. Democrats should refuse to appear on Fox News. And for the same reason they wouldn’t appear on the Lyndon Larouche Network. Fox is not a legitimate news enterprise and should not be treated as one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if any further evidence was needed….. Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post wrote a profile of Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer. The piece began by making a completely unsupported assertion that Hemmer was “a middle-of-the-road guy.” However, Kurtz quickly redeemed himself by pointing out that Hemmer’s record of fairness and\/or balance was something less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684],"tags":[520,33,297],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-bill-hemmer","tag-fox-news","tag-howard-kurtz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-xT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41884,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41884","url_meta":{"origin":2101,"position":0},"title":"WHUT? 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