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1) Specter’s town hall meeting was given significant coverage by ALL networks over the summer due to the real contentious nature of the meeting. As someone in journalism should understand, this makes for great news, and Fox covered and discussed this as much as CNN (I assume you were following)
2) Based on point #1, it does make sense that more coverage would be given to Specter and less to Obama. This is something called “Context”. It is also, based on point #1, more appealing to viewers.

Now if you’re issue is with the nature of journalism itself, then I agree with you. Does it often happen that important stories don’t come to the top or get significant coverage because they are boring? I am sure, as someone in journalism, you understand that it certainly does happen. But this notion that one network has a bias instead of blaming the nature of journalism itself is astounding to me. Again, you are doing exactly what you falsely claim Fox news is doing. You are taking facts out of context and generating your own narrative so that it suits your political end. We all know that many people who are on the left of center of the political spectrum have an unreasonable / illogical hatred of an entire news network.

Fox News (or any other news broadcast) can essentially cover what they want to. If you don’t like the coverage, you can watch a different channel – or better yet – watch them all at once (Plasma TV’s are cheap these days).

There is no law or regulation that dictates what they show or not. I would suspect the use of the word “fair” would only come in when you feel your political god isn’t getting good coverage – and bitterness results.

Dunno – not worth getting all banged up over, IMO.

As a PR professional, I understand how the media works and which is slanted which way. There’s little objectivity in reporting when news stations and papers publicly endorse a political candidate.

I can’t stand it when politicians ask kids their opinions. I’m 20 years old. I remember that from the time I was her age (11) through my mid-teens, my opinions were nearly identical to whatever I was told. This obsession with the “wisdom” of our children is ludicrous. When you’re that young, you only think what your parents think, and this girl is no different. She may be a nice kid, but a source of legitimate political inquiry? Nah.

As for the “mob”: How are the supposedly rowdy health care protestors any worse than the SEIU thugs who beat up said protestors? http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/shocker-keith-olbermann-lies-about-tea.html I guess freedom of speech is only allowed when we like what we hear and it doesn’t hurt our feelings.

Seriously, Diane, calm down. The way you write, I’m tempted to request you take some sort of anxiety medication.

Fox has CLEARLY been decidedly not “fair” in their coverage of these meetings. Just look at the way they handled the “news story” about the Dingle protester. It turned into a sob-story interview – and let’s not forget those death threats! I didn’t realize Hoboken was such a Fox-y town, but maybe it should start catching up on its homework before asking 500 leading questions, huh?

Also, Rifleman47: 1) Your username scares me and 2) If everyone’s policy was to turn away from the things we didn’t like, shouldn’t the media have nothing to talk about? I say watch the stuff you hate. I’ve watched Ann Coulter’s YAF speech TWICE in the past two days! It’s hilarious!

I didn’t ask the producer, but the two town halls I compared were both today. One was around 9:30am, one was around 1:00pm.

And I can tell you that in this instance, Fox covered Specter’s town hall the longest of the three networks, and covered Obama’s town hall the least. And not only did they cover it the least, but they spent several segments after the town hall coverage to discuss the town hall with guests, while not actually taking the feed live.

- Did you ask the producer on FNC for their reasonings? Do you even think that much thought goes into making that decision? Were the same producers working both days?

- Does the number of minutes one stretch of coverage gets require or *dictate* how many minutes all future broadcasts receive? Have you complied comprehensive charts on what other channels are doing? Do you have any historical reference? Or just this one you hand-picked?

- Did you compare what days of the week each broadcast was on? What other stories were in the news?

Dunno sounds like you labeling and making judgment without knowing the whole story.