When a George W Bush appointed panel's recommendation of less frequent mammograms to screen for breast cancer was followed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' recommendation of less frequent pap smears to screen for cervical cancer last week, the Fox News story I saw on the issue did a reasonable job of explaining the new guidelines, but when it came to covering the way some Republicans tried to politicize this news in the ongoing health care reform debate, Fox News did a poor job, falling into the trap of covering the so called "rationing" controversy rather than informing viewers of the truth, as I show in this video.
The Fox News story from James Rosen, anchored by Martha McCallum, including the clip of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, comes from the program "Live Desk" that aired on November 20, 2009 (and I have been unable to find this segment available online).
The clip I use of Bill O'Reilly attacking Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in this video come from the episode of his Fox News program "The O'Reilly Factor" broadcast on May 11, 2009 that you can find included in my previous video titled "Calling Murdered Dr Tiller 'Baby Killer' Was Wrong?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYbAhCdmZsThe first two clips from PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" come from the short news story at
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/stnmodule.html?mod=0&pkg=20112009&seg=1The next two clips from PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" come from the news analysis story at
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/stnmodule.html?mod=0&pkg=20112009&seg=3And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
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