Let’s face it: Kelly has a strategic purpose on FOX. To give news, of which there is very little on FOX, a right wing spin. She is the complement to Shepherd who has too much integrity to spin the news. Kelly has no integrity and is pleased to shill.

TRRK: While she does have a strategic purpose on FOX, so does every other anchor on every other network. FNC goes right, MSNBC goes left (minus Joey in the AM). Its just the facts of 24/7 cable news. I think its unfair to say she has no integrity as she did hold Steele’s feet to the fire today. With that said, what impacts the narrative of all news shows the most is who they book for interviews.

ML: Kelly may well have been more balanced on this interview than most. I’m not willing, yet, to admit that confers integrity upon her. It could mean she simply holds Steele in low regard. I’ve seen Kelly hurl to falsehoods, repeatedly mistreat people with whom she disagrees, make one of her many disparaging facial gestures to confer any integrity on her.

(White) Royal “K”ing only gets upset with bias coming from the right. Bias from the left is okay.

TRRK: Fair enough, but I have a hard time saying that any anchor on cable tv has journalistic integrity.

writer – this comment, and others like it from you, are not about the story at all but are about other commenters. Keep your comments about the content of the post or you will be banned.

Steve, you’ve gotta be kidding. Have you noticed all the hatred and personal attacks coming from the left wing posters on here. Why don’t you make them play by your rules too. Hypocrite.

Royal refers to Palin as a fornicating cat or a rutting coyote. Where are you on that, Steve? I’ll gladly debate you on this. Or are you going to do like the left always does, and simply refuse to let anyone other than your side talk?

@Steve: Admittedly, all I’ve seen of today’s show was the Michael Steele interview and as I posted to the other thread, I had a somewhat different take and after looking at your list of today’s guests, I don’t know that my allegation about the segment serving as a Republican Party communications vehicle is very far from the mark.

Off course I don’t watch Ms Kelly every day, so I can’t speak with any authority, but based on my sporadic viewing, the online clips and this post, I have to wonder about the “balance”.

writer… email me at steve @ mediaite.com if you have something to discuss. Otherwise, keep your comments related to the posts and we won’t have a problem.

I will admit to being drawn into a far left tactic, the personal attack, and I try to avoid that. It’s not on this particular thread I’m speaking of. Take a look at some of the comments from the left on other threads, especially those from Royal King. His level of hatred and insults go far beyond normal discussion. But when I stoop to that level, I’m being like him…something I really don’t want. Will stick to topics unless personally attacked from now on.

I’ve been reading Mediaite ever since Glen Beck refer to it a couple of months ago…and I have to say, the editors here sure spend a lot of time scrutinizing seemingly every little detail for every show on FNC and MSNBC (and occasionally, some shows on CNN). To the point where, today, taking this new FNC show, and deriving BIAS out of her selection of guest…wow!

If we apply this logic to the REAL Bias medias…(Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Charles Gibson / Dianne Sawyer)…we’d really have a discussion…

Oh..wait…apparently, they are “news”…

I wonder if Mediaite will ever micro-analyze Brian, Katie, or Dianne…?

…here’s hoping…

Writer, the moderator is not saying you can’t attack the people discussed in the article (i.e. Palin) ; just that you can’t attack other commentators. You do understand the distinction? You may not like that rule, but it is clear in its interpretation.

Bias-Media, you are spouting a ridiculous talking point that is the exception rather than the rule. At Fox News it is the rule to be biased all hours of the day.

Steve, are you for real? I agree that things need to be civil, but you should also be consistent. There have been alot of hate spewed from the left and as long as I’ve been visiting the site, I’ve never seen you reprimand anyone on the left. Let’s be fair, at least. I’ve been called many hateful things from those on the left and you’ve never come to my aid.

same2u says:

I laughed out loud at your comment. You lecturing people on being civil is hilarious! You’re one of the absolute worse, along with Ted.

@MichelleF

“ridiculous talking point that is the exception rather than the rule”

ha ha ha…good one…

(ps…never claimed Fox isn’t bias. But let’s not pretend Fox is the only outlet being bias…)

Why don’t you laugh your butt back over to TVNewser.

@MichelleF

sorry! that last post was meant for same2u

err…Steve?

So what you are saying, Same2u is that opposing views aren’t welcome? That is the vibe on this site. Thanks for proving my point. Myabe steve can reprimand you next.

So what if Kelly leans right. She is very accomplished lawyer and very smart person.

I have never seen her bow down to anyone. Did you see how she attacked that lawyer with the Tiger woods porn star. That was great!

That is why the left hates her already. Because she is a very strong woman, intelligent and good looking.

same2u, i’m curious to know if you think, cnn, msnbc, abc, cbs, nbc, etc are all unbiased. Please say yes and prove our point.

Give me a break Steve!
Have you read the personal attacks or low ball remarks ” same2u or the The Real Royal King and others on the left have said about people on this site?

I know they want anyone with opposite views to leave the site and make it a left wing cheering circle.

Steve,
If you are looking to have just another one in 1000 left wing blow hard blogs with no counter views, where you can each massage each others comments then let us all know.

I thought this site was different?

Did you really think it was different, PF? Really?

Why do you guys keeps crying? He has given both Ted and me warnings in the past. The difference is we don’t whine about it afterwords. . I was making a clear distinction between attacking the people in the article from attacking other comments. I never said I didn’t violate the rule.

Now go back to your trolling at TVNewser. This site isn’t a chat room or your own personal message board like you are accustomed to.

I switched over to Fox today to see what they were talking about. Meygan Kelly’s show was on. It was about 1:10pm. It was in some segment about to end. Kelly said there was a report that Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court was stepping down and there would be a woman on after the break to say the story was false. Well there was no segment after the break about it. Then she said the same thing before the next break, and the next break with no story about it. Then when the last break before the 2:00pm break she never even mentioned it. I wasted almost an hour waiting to hear this story because I didn’t hear it reported about on other news stations.

same2u, i’m curious to know if you think, cnn, msnbc, abc, cbs, nbc, etc are all unbiased. Please say yes and prove our point.

Still waiting for you answer.

The Real Royal King says:
March 4, 2010 at 5:24 pm

Those are more of the “I’ve seen, but can’t tell you about them specifically” variety, right?

Steve Krakauer says:
March 4, 2010 at 5:31 pm

Steve, I gotta agree with Writer on this one. If Mediaite is going to start some board moderation (a good idea), you gotta give us warning… and there are far worse things that have been said. I pull a few quotes this weekend of Roxy actively wishing for the death of his/her political opponents… and not a word from anyone at Mediaite. And now, Writer is getting called out for being “over the top”… really? What gives?

the real john t says:
March 4, 2010 at 8:46 pm

I wasted almost an hour waiting to hear this story because I didn’t hear it reported about on other news stations.

One, I find that hard to believe. Two, sometimes things like that happen in live news (the satellite goes down, the woman doesn’t show, etc.) Three, that story was reported on Mediaite, under the “Online” section. Here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/radar-online-wins-15-minutes-of-fame-with-false-john-roberts-resignation-rumor/

I’m second guessing ever coming back here after seeing Krakauer post that on writer.

rmbtmbl, would you like a tissue?

ImNotBlue says:
March 5, 2010 at 1:14 am
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So, are you telling me Mediaite knew the story before Fox did? Or are you saying Mediaite wrote that article and posted it within 15mins?

Stewart not only has a point, it’s one that was long overdue. We’ve long noted Kelly’s bias, especially towards people of color. If you missed it, you’ve got to see this jaw-dropping segment in which Kelly gushed so hard over ACORN videographer – and proven liar – Hannah Giles that I expected her to call up the Nobel Prize Committee right then and there and demand that Giles be given an award on the spot.
http://www.newshounds.us/2010/02/18/megyn_kelly_gushes_over_acorn_gotcha_gal_hannah_giles_overlooks_her_many_falsehoods.php

There was also the time Kelly was agog over the supposedly bad news for Obama in meaningless poll results in Puerto Rico
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/06/02/megyn_kelly_agog_with_bad_news_for_obama_in_meaningless_puerto_rico_poll.php

And there was the time she had a meltdown over ACORN.
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/03/20/megyn_kelly_melts_down_over_acorn.php

You get the picture… I hope. What’s great is that Stewart definitely did.

Steve, that was a very fair assessment. I think you should take over editorial control of Media Matters’ website.

Daily Show does have a point. I often see Kelly tossing softball questions to Republicans. And she’ll do news coverage about Obama’s policies and then follow it with “analysis,” which consists of a conservative pundit coming on the show to explain why they’re wrong and bad. What did Monica Crowley do to bring balance to a news program the other day, and where was the counter? Bernie Goldberg saying the same thing he always says? How is that news.

Unlike so many of our posters from the left, I’ve never cursed anyone or wished them dead. Perhaps that was what drew Steve’s attention.

the real john t says:
March 5, 2010 at 2:02 am

So, are you telling me Mediaite knew the story before Fox did? Or are you saying Mediaite wrote that article and posted it within 15mins?

Probably the former. I mean, I saw the story on Drudge… then an update on Drudge (saying that a SCOTUS person had refuted the story to Drudge)… and all that was before Kelly was on the air. Again, there are a lot of potentials for why they canned the story.

same2u, I’m clearly not getting a response. You do love your drive by insults but disappear when asked to defend them.

You say:
“But the Daily Show was edited to prove that point…”

That is, of course, true, but it is also necessary when your segment is two minutes long. This is a comedy show, not Howard Kurtz’s soapbox.

WHy is it no one ever calls Stewart out on the fact that he is a flat out leftist?

He’s been kissing Obama’s rear since day 1 of the campaign. He is fully against Fox and any right-wing org.

YES, TDS is technically a comedy show (even when it isn’t funny) but if he insists on being taken as a journalist, we should treat him as such.

I’m confused. I’m new here (link from newsbusters) so you’ll have to tell me if it’s only Fox that is scrutinized so closely. you know? whether Megyn Kelly asks harder questions of a Dem than a GOPer seems a small point compared to, say, the way Dylan Ratigan “interviews” guests he may not agree with.

@Ruth: Here’s a link to this site’s “Dylan Ratigan” tag which should include all the posts about him. The detailed analysis of Megyn Kelly’s day was to see if Jon Stewart had a point or if he was using hyperbole, as Steve said in the post and I can’t recall any other Daily Show segment being so thoroughly fact-checked by this site.

Nice try Steve Krakauer with your attempt to defend the talented, but biased, Megyn Kelly. I’m just not buying it.

If it was a point-counterpoint with you and Jon Stewart it seems clear that Mr. Stewart presented the more convincing argument.

If anyone is interested in further analysis of this, please read this:

http://newsbusters.org/node/36951/print

Steve,
Maybe an update with further info is warranted. What do you think?

Oh, sure! From nutsfluffers.

Now THAT is a reliable, unbiased source of information RIGHT THERE

Who could ever doubt “the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias. ”

Ijit

Please, if you can refute what they are saying, I’m happy to listen. Of course, you can’t so I won’t hold my breath.

What makes her so different than anyone on the other news(?) networks? Does she slant the news to the right? Sure she does. So what? That’s what all journalists(?) do, on every news channel and basically every so called media website. That’s how they make their money. Pandering to their viewers. What is the big deal? Fox is on the right, MSNBC is on the left, Mediaite is centre left, HuPo is way left, Drudge way right and on and on.
Recognize it for what it is, as none of it is balanced anyway. And to have people, especially media sites like Mediaite use a comedy show as the marker for journalistic watchdog is just plain stupid. Like they don’t hold a bias?

Thank god for ESPN!