The fun began early: “Though Fox News maintains that its reporting is down the middle, Democrats have long complained that the news channel operates like a public relations outpost of the Bush White House.” And, the fun came often: “Democrats have believed, nearly from the moment Fox News began in October of 1996, that the news channel was institutionally biased against them.”
Though typically intimating FNC to be a Republican network, the Times grudgingly admitted that it is not just watched by such: “The cable news channel, despite a fall-off in ratings over the past year, still towers over its competitors. And although the viewers who regularly watch Fox News are more likely to be Republican, Democrats and independents still turn up in significant numbers — 20 percent and 17 percent, respectively, compared with 34 percent who are Republicans — according to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press."
Yet, possibly the most telling contradiction was here: “The Republican National Committee is doing its bit to spread that point of view. After the Clinton interview, it sent talking points to its grassroots membership and to the news media, and ramped up efforts to book people on TV and radio programs to comment on the debate."
Mysteriously, Manly didn't mention the Democratic National Committee talking points the Times normally reprints for its readers, or how much of this very article came from such a memo.
