Fox Ignores the Left Wing Side of the News
Thursday, October 22, 2009
By Tessa Leone
The National Equality March, which was held on October 10-11 (last weekend), was a highly televised event. Tens of thousands of protesters stormed the capital waving flags and yielding signs demanding equality and equal rights concerning bisexual couples.
All of the major networks covered the story, all of the networks except Fox News. Fox, a widely speculated 'Right Wing' broadcast spent little time on the story and used ABC's footage of the event.
The main focus of the rally was to appeal for gay marriage and abolish the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy. The turnout alone was newsworthy by the very definition of the word.
Comedic newscaster, John Stewart was also offeneded by Fox. He covered the fact that Fox News didn't cover the rally on his program, The Daily Show.
"You didn't even send your own camera crew?" exclaimed Stewart. "You have a Washington bureau! Tell them to go to the window and point the camera down!"
A good reporter must remain biast and tell the news like it is. Omitting a story on the grounds of personal opinion is very unprofessional for a reporter and defienitely a major faux pa for a network news station.
Photo Credit: Michael T. Luongo
2 comments:
That sounds like something Fox would do. They have always had the reputation of being a biased News station, which is very sad, but nobody has really challenged their unfairness, whether because they don't know how or they just don't care.
But I think their biasness is going to come back to haunt them in the end. The fact that they had to use ABC's footage will eventually show people that they should go straight to the source rather than a secondhand recording of a rather big event.
I agree with Laura, that Fox could start losing their support base. I understand that everyone won't like to hear about everything that is being portrayed on the news. At least Fox could have made a little effort in showing their own footage. But like Laura said, it is going to come back to haunt them.
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