Fox forgets convention in Democratic coverage

[stewert]

I set out this week to provide a fair and balanced look at the coverage of the Democratic National Convention, as brought to us by CNN and Fox News.

Don't worry, though. In keeping with the tenets of the Fox News Channel - the journalism beacon that it is - I'll do the same when the Republican convention rolls around in August.

CNN Monday night was pretty ho-hum. Al Gore spoke, conservative and liberal analysts talked about it. Jimmy Carter spoke, conservative and liberal analysts talked about it.

You know how it goes. It's what you expect when you tune in to watch a political convention during a presidential election year.

We know these events are staged. We know the speeches are rehearsed. We generally know what to expect.

Both parties get a fair shot. They each have their dog-and-pony show, and voters take that and do with it what they like.

So you can imagine my surprise when I popped in a tape of Fox News' "coverage" from Monday night.

It wasn't there.

I mean, they were there at the FleetCenter in Boston. They had cameras there. They had reporters there. They had signs there. They even had the all-important Democratic National Convention logo on the screen.

But the coverage wasn't there.

Full Story:

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/07/29/ae_balta001.cfm

[quinnox]

1. good article

For laughs I flipped to Fox now and then the past few days and the writer is correct, they were hardly ever showing the speeches.

[Kellanved]

2. I see

Why do I have the feeling that speeches by the pResident will not be considered partisan?

[Killarney]

3. Who is HeraldNet?

Are they a paper or just online?

Good for them for calling on Faux on their ridiculousness.

[AmericanErrorist]

8. It's a Newspaper

in the Everett, WA area.

[meegbear]

4. As Gomer Pyle would say ...

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

I'm sure next month Fox'll be touting themselves as the "Official News Organization of the Republican National Convention" with wall-to-wall coverage.

[blueblitzkrieg]

5. Salon.com addresses it too.

"The other clear TV oddity on day one was how the Fox News Channel, from 8 to 10:30 p.m. refused to air anything live from the Democratic convention podium, including speeches, tributes and patriotic songs. Only when the Clintons spoke did Fox turn its camera to the event."

The article also talks about the coverage being slanted against the Democrats too. Good read, you can get a free pass to read it (you have to watch an ad).
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/27/monday_tv/index.html

[Justice]

6. Hannity - Is it true he was banned from the floor after Monday?

I just read this on another post - is it true?

If he wasn't on the floor on Tuesday or Wednesday, we need to get out the world that Fox had to ban him from the floor b/c of his unfair and unbalanced coverage.

[DeaconBlues]

7. Fox did show the beginning of Al Sharpton's speech in an obvious

attempt to make it look like he is the main spokesman for the Democratic party. But when Sharpton started to rip into Bush so effectively, they cut him off. Can't have the proles actually hear a voice from reality, you know.

God, Fox is such a right-wing propaganda tool it would be funny if it weren't so sad.

[BayouBengal07]

9. On Hannity and Colmes

Hannity cut off a Gov. Ed Rendell just now. Rendell said (rightly) that Bush is responsible for faulty intelligence as he is the Commander in Cheif responsible for getting to the bottom of bad intel, not propagating it. Hannity cut him off to announce Fox had a "live shot of the Fleet Center" that was nothing more than a camera on the parking lot.

And where was Colmes? Silent, as usual.

[bbernardini]

10. Oh, that wasn't smart.

You don't cut off Ed Rendell. In fact, you don't fuck with Ed Rendell in general.