WHAT OBJECTIVITY?

Nice turn of the trick there, Winston, with the Case vs. Murdoch involvement in the article cited. Really first rate - no joke. I just wonder how an organization that considers news a "full contact sport" can be taken at face value when they claim to be "fair and balanced"? This does not make CNN any better - it just calls into question the notion of objectivity in the first place.

The visceral reaction of liberals to FOX is a mirror of the indignant conservative reaction to CNN. Perhaps those interested more in truth than scoring short-term partisan points (or hearing the story told the way THEY want it told) will take to viewing both networks plus others and develop the ability to absorb news with a jaundiced eye, questioning the bias of any report, and ending the silliness about which news corporation is "objective". But then the previous sentence is based on what is probably a fallacy - that people (of either political stripe) want objectivity. The truth is that the vast majority of people who are interested in the news (which in itself is a minority) simply want to hear what they want to hear. American broadcasters are the best in the world and know when there is a market to be developed. Now both sides are served with their own filtered/spun version of events. Only the delusional are clinging to the untenable notion of objectivity.