Fox News

There has been more and more talk from the Obama administration and other liberal commentators about the Fox News channel being a "wing of the Republican Party," and they've been talking about its lies and inaccuracies. I try to view stuff like this as objectively as possible, which isn't always easy. But whenever they talk on the subject, they almost always bring up O'Reilly, or Glenn Beck, or other conservative talk shows. They are not differentiating between the opinion shows, and the news shows. MSNBC and the other news channels have shows on like Chris Matthews with all of his inaccuracies, but why doesn't the left complain about those shows? I have always felt the other news channels were very unfair to Republicans, while easy on Democrats. And, I've always thought Fox News was pretty even handed to all (we're talking news shows, not opinion). According to a study done by the Pew Research Center, I was right. The report says:

... a study by the Pew Research Center showed that 40 percent of Fox News stories on Obama in the last six weeks of the campaign were negative. Similarly, 40 percent of Fox News' stories on Obama's Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, were negative.

On CNN, by contrast, there was a 22-point disparity in the percentage of negative stories on Obama (39 percent) and McCain (61 percent). The disparity was even greater at MSNBC, according to Pew, where just 14 percent of Obama stories were negative, compared to a whopping 73 percent of McCain stories -- a spread of 59 points.

So there you have it. Here's the article:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/white-house-escalates-war-words-fox-news/