The MSM Continues To Ignore The Fair Market Value Of Fox News' Character Assassinations of Obama

[Median Democrat]

The MSM repeatedly discusses Obama's fundraising advantage, as though this rendered the playing field uneven. However, what we never hear is what is the fair market value of Fox News essentially becoming a 24/7 attack ad against the Democrats in the week leading up to the election.

Even Jon Stewart is buying into this notion that it is okay, because Fox News is counter balanced by MSNBC. However, MSNBC just has two shows, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, that are liberal. The rest are mainstream, and in the case of David Gregory and Joe Scarbourough, pretty conservative. Heck, even Rachel Maddow continues to have Pat Buchanan as a guest.

Finally, even Countdown and Maddow never try to make up story lines like Fox's efforts to radically distort Obama's 2001 interview into saying something that is completely opposite from what he actually said. Fox is going beyond commentary, and pushing flat out fiction.

So, to get an accuate view of Obama's funding advantage or disadvantage, you would really need to estimate the fair market value of Fox New's repeated attacks on Obama, and fawning coverage of McCain/Palin. Better yet, take the hours that Rachel Maddow and Countdown are shown on MSNBC, then substact them from 24 hours, and that is the GOP's Fox News advantage.

[NorCalDem]

1. Which is why I dislike Rachel Maddow and Olberman...

I wish they would stop being so liberal all the time and just report the damn news sometimes. Their rants and snark are amusing, but in the end they just give creedence to the "liberal media" meme and make it so Rush Limbaugh and his ilk can hold them as as proof that the media is biased.

If instead, they just reported the news, the only blatantly unbalanced media would be Fox (one can argue whether CNN, NBC, etc. are biased, but none nearly as much as Fox) and they lean to the right, so we'd stand a chance of squashing the "liberal media" nonsense. As it stands with Maddow and Olberman, there is no chance of the "liberal media" meme ever going away...