WP, Kurtz: An Opinionated Network (Fox News!)

WP, Howard Kurtz
An Opinionated Network
Monday, Mar 14, 2005; 7:05 AM


In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on Fox News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists reporting them, a new study says.

By contrast, 29 percent of the war reports on MSNBC and 2 percent of those on CNN included the journalists' own views.

These findings -- the figures were similar for coverage of other stories -- "seem to challenge" Fox's slogan of "we report, you decide," says the Project for Excellence in Journalism....

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The project describes cable news reporting as pretty thin compared to the ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts. Only a quarter of the cable stories examined contained two or more identifiable sources, compared with 49 percent of network evening news stories and 81 percent of newspaper front-page stories....

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The newsweeklies continued a drift toward softer and broader coverage, the report says. Newsweek did six celebrity and entertainment covers last year to Time's one, while Time did two covers on sports, two on history and one on the environment (the thinner U.S. News & World Report took a more traditional hard-news approach). Newsweek ("The Secret Lives on Wives") and Time ("Low Carb Nation") also ran a number of covers on what the project says might be called "faux trends."...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/kurtzhoward/

The pot calling the kettle black... They're all Whores!

contrary.

Guess they didn't count anything done by Wolf Blitzer, Aaron Brown, or Lou Dobbs?

But yep Fox is the defining pit of hell. And Kurtz is a prime whore in his own right.

:shrug: It certainly is not news.....

First time ever that the right wing has admitted to being biased.

are subjects of other pieces in LBN. Different news outlets are highlighting different aspects of the "Project for Excellence in Journalism" report.

should stick to the facts which would relegate him to the navel gazing pre-school of journalism with all of his media whore pals! :eyes:

I LOVE the huffy, we would "we would never censor our reporters" crap. No, morons, it's called EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT.

Is there a downside to this becoming a contest between MSM outlets?

Before oligopolies were unofficially legalized.