Atta Girl, Campbell! Keep it up, and I’ll start watching you every night.

What Mrs. Senor misses, deliberately in my view and largely missing in all the recent reporting of “The Feud”, is that dozens of examples exist of even the MSNBC opinion shows taking on Democrats in general and the Obama Administration in particular, let alone on their news shows.

No such parallel exists from Fox News or opinion shows on the former administration, otherwise Cheney’s hotel rooms and Air Force One wouldn’t have had a proclamation that only Fox be viewed; and none certainly exists in Roger Ailes’ and Rupert Murdoch’s predictable jihad against this administration to date (let alone the Fox conveyor belt of fallacious Clinton hate before Bush).

It’s much easier to simply proclaim MSNBC biased without addressing the actual substance of the reporting and opinion on both networks.

By the way, Mrs. Senor, where’s CNN’s reporting on paid shills from the defense industry being paraded on CNN for “expert” analysis leading up to the Iraq debacle?

Jim, you’re just not being honest. Fox commentators beat the crap out Bush when he nominated Harriet Meyers for the Supreme Court, and when he tried to line up support for comprehensive immigration reform. Those are just the two most high profile examples.

In the interests of balance, I will absolutely admit MSNBC commentators have broken with Obama on the public option, rendition and wiretapping.

All the above examples prove that MSNBC prime timers advocate for the left, but are not an arm of the DNC. Similarly, Fox prime timers advocate for the right, but are not an arm of the RNC.

And before you delight in calling Campbell Brown “Mrs. Senor” one more time, ask yourself if Andrea Mitchell should disclose in every story she files that she’s married to Alan Greenspan. Certainly he had far more influence on current events than Dan Senor ever did, and yet I think both women are among the better ACTUAL journalists on TV.

Steve, I’m not sure CNN has ever promoted Larry King as a news show, so this post is a tad off the mark. But I’m sure with a little digging you could have found plenty of examples from Brown’s own show (as well as Anderson Cooper’s) that wouldn’t exactly qualify as the “news” Brown claims she does.

MSNBC doesn’t pretend to be impartial or balanced. They’ve openly referred to themselves the “network of change”.

Fox News on the other hand…

Good points all, straitshooter, although I don’t think they make me “not being honest”. My larger point stands, however.

All or never comments on the media coverage are hardly ever accurate. I still take exception to any attempts to equate Fox news or opinion coverage with any other network, the listed and unlisted exceptions notwithstanding.

I will avoid casting aspersions on Campbell in the future due to Dan Senor’s significant role in the policies of the Bush Administration and particularly Middle East policies.

I do like both Andrea and Campbell’s work. Although Andrea’s spouse played more than an incidental role in both Democratic and Republican administrations, while Dan Senor will obviously not be listed in any Democratic administrations anytime soon.

Jim, you are right. I misread your first post, and my challenge to your honesty was flat-out wrong. I apologize.

No apology necessary, straitshooter, but appreciated nonetheless.

I like the back and forth with those who I respectfully disagree with.

CNN, along with NBC, CBS, and ABC daytime and evening news programs are all news “LITE”. And Fox “News” isn’t news at all. Now, MSNBC with Olbermann and Maddow does not pretend to be news, as does FNC, but political commentary – - and it’s the very best investagative journalism we have seen in a very long time (since the days of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather), especvially the diligent, well researched, and studiously accurate Rachel Maddow. The three MSM TV news porgrams have gone listless and vacant. Campbell Brown is nice to look at, but has a very long way to go to rise to the level of a really convincing news reporter and interviewer. She is guilty of the same flaccid lack of courage during interviews that masquerades as “objectivity”, and which is the case with nearly all MSM news anchors. They allow misleading and lying interviewees to get away with palaver hat Chris Matthews on MSNBC would never tolerate, despite the fact that Matthews is perhaps at times a bit to confrontational and quite a motor-mouth. But I would rather have Matthews’ approach than any of the MSM anchors any day of the week.
While FNC’s rating are on top because it has a viewing population of right wing-nut “ditto heads”, it appears that other TV news viewers may feel the same way as I do about CNN, since CNN’s ratings are at the bottom of the list of news and commentary channels. Maybe TV viewers are getting tired of news “LITE”.

I do say, good for Campbell for calling Jarrett out on her silence on the bias at MSNBC, but really, CNN is not a news show in prime time.

Campbell herself went on a rant against Palin that was so over the top that McCain cancelled his appearance that evening with LKL. Cooper and his teabagging comments, Carville, Begalla, Borger on air as commentators is not news but pure commentary. And we don’t even need to mention that Jack Cafferty guy.

CNN can pretend they are straight news, but they aren’t which is why their ratings are in the gutter. They pretend to be something they aren’t..

Hadashito,

Olbermann and Maddow don’t do investigative journalism. They don’t even have correspondents who do investigative journalism. They let other outlets find the news, and then they comment on it. If ACTUAL journalists weren’t out there asking serious questions and doing factual research, people like Olbermann, Maddow, Hannity and Beck would have NOTHING to talk about.

That’s the sad thing about these people. They are parasites, and yet they get so much attention and make so much more money than the people who do the heavy lifting.

You routinely demonstrate an inability to look at MSNBC objectively. As for Maddow, tell me one story that she has broken. That’s just not what she does. At least Glenn Beck, despite all his absurd deficiencies, managed to hound an administration official out of a job.

Jim R says:
October 29, 2009 at 10:07 am

”No such parallel exists from Fox News or opinion shows on the former administration..

Does it bother you to lie? I mean, really bold faced lie like this? Do you think your political allies are so stupid that they actually believe you? Wow.