Fair and Balanced

Leaked emails tell us what we’ve known all along:

Fox executives regularly defend the network by claiming that the right-wing propaganda on Hannity and its other opinion shows is entirely separate from its news programming, which they insist is objective. But Sammon’s email gives credence to allegations that news from Fox’s Washington bureau is being deliberately distorted to benefit conservatives and the Republican Party.

I’m sure that the ABC, NBC, CNN, and CBS news operations will now reassure us that this is “old news” that’s well known and just the way things ought to work in America. Anything else would threaten the sanctity of the fourth estate, after all. And if one party holds and actively uses the most watched news network in the US for its own benefit, well, that must be what the people want and more power to them. After all, where else are you going to see the slate of GOP Presidential candidates every hour on the hour?

Fair and Balanced