An awesome comment about Fox News..

[PrMaine]

43. But FOX is Fair and Balanced!

At least that is what they tell their audience.

For myself I've studiously avoided watching FOX since 2000. Up until then I thought they were fair (if only by their own standards) even if clearly unbalanced. However, in 2000 I learned this was clearly not true - that they were in fact quite consciously and intentionally unfair.

I was watching a panel discussion on FOX (my mother-in-law had it on) and one panelist seemed as though he might be preparing to say something that would suggest unfairness in that Florida vote-count that then favored Bush. Suddenly - in mid-sentence - FOX switched to a commercial and when the commercial was done, the panelist in question was simply gone from the set and without any explanation or even recognition of that fact; apparently the assumption was that audience attention span and memory was so short-lived that no one would notice.