NY Times: A Surge on One Channel, a Tight Race on Another (MSNBC/Fox News)

A Surge on One Channel, a Tight Race on Another

By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: November 1, 2008


WASHINGTON — It was a lousy day to be Senator John McCain, Keith Olbermann informed his viewers on MSNBC on Thursday.

Senator Barack Obama’s surge in the polls was so strong he was competitive in Mr. McCain’s home state, Arizona. The everyman hero of Mr. McCain’s campaign, “Joe the Plumber,” failed to make an expected appearance at a morning rally in Defiance, Ohio, and the senator’s efforts to highlight Mr. Obama’s association with a professor tied to the P.L.O. were amounting to nothing.

Wait a minute ... not so fast. Click.

Things were looking up for Mr. McCain, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren told their viewers on Fox News Channel on Thursday. He got a boost at an afternoon rally in Sandusky, Ohio, from none other than Joe the Plumber, who announced his intention to vote for “a real American, John McCain”; he was gaining new ground in ever-tightening polls, despite the overwhelming bias against him in the mainstream news media; and Mr. Obama’s association with a professor sympathetic to the P.L.O. was now at “the center of the election.”

On any given night, there are two distinctly, even extremely, different views of the presidential campaign offered on two of the three big cable news networks, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, a dual reality that is reflected on the Internet as well. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/us/politics/02tube.html?hp

If one network is consistently wrong, why is there any reason AT ALL to compare their credibility?

Maybe it's too late for my brain to function. I didn't get that article.

Where's the 3 hours of liberal perspective on Faux News Channel?