Brit Hume honor triggers protest (Wash. Post bigwig resigns from Nat'l Press Fndtn.)

USA Today ^ | 02/02/2004 | Peter Johnson

[MindBender26]

Is Fox News Channel "fair and balanced," as its motto claims?

Or is that slogan a clever marketing line designed to hide Fox News political tilt to the right?

And with its success

[MindBender26]

Past recipients of the group's Sol Taishoff award include TV newscasters David Brinkley, Dan Rather, John Chancellor, Jane Pauley, Barbara Walters and Nina Totenberg.

All moderate left fo far left. I have worked with Nina Totenberg. Far-far-left, and very active in promoting leftist causes. Far from a neutral journalist.

She says groups such as the foundation, before lauding Fox or its lead news anchor, should debate whether the way Fox reports news is good for journalism.

Like the fox guarding the henhouse, or actually, more like Ted Bundy guarding the Sorority House.

[mewzilla]

Hey, Geneva, hows about some cheese to go with your whine?

[ken5050]

Did you see the WP headline this weekend, as mentioned on Fox News.about "HOuse Dems and Conservative Republicans.."..

[Savage Beast]

"That is inaccurate and unfair to other media who engage in a quest, perhaps an imperfect quest, for objectivity."

Who is this woman anyway? Is she mentally retarded? bonkers? seriously psychotic? or has she been in a coma for the past 30 years?

[MizSterious]

FYI

[petercooper]

Brit Hume is the best there is.

[TheGeezer]

"And I can applaud Fox for all sorts of things, but being deceptively ideologically aligned — being hypocritical about it — far from contributing to such discussions, makes them impossible to have.

Overholser is herself hypocritical with this remark. The media since the 1960s has been deceptively ideologically aligned. Fox exposes the common leftward tilt of contemporary news (and entertainment) quite simply because Fox is balanced.

Congratulations to Mr. Hume..."fair, balanced, and unafraid!"

[babaloo]

She used to be the editor of the Des Moines Register. IIRC she ended up marrying a guy by the name of Dave Westfall who was also in management at the Register who left his wife and kids for her. Nice she has her standards of conduct down to a science.

[aculeus]

Left-wingers or Dems employed by Fox: David Corn, Susan Estrich, Allan Colmes, Geraldine Ferraro, [There are others. Help needed.]


Right wingers employed by PBS:

[BluH2o]

"That is inaccurate and unfair to other media who engage in a quest, perhaps an imperfect quest, for objectivity."

Definitely a candidate for understatement of the year award.

[AppyPappy]

Nina Totenburg led the lynching of Clarence Thomas. Hardly neutral. How much you want to be that this WP "bigwig" is about to take a campaign job?

[trad_anglican]

Overholser, the former editor of The Des Moines Register (until an office affair with another married editor at the Register forced her to resign) who now runs the University of Missouri's Washington journalism program, quietly resigned from the board of the foundation three weeks ago.

[bobsatwork]

And I can applaud Fox for all sorts of things, but being deceptively ideologically aligned . OK Overholser, first give us some examples of what things you applaud Fox for. Then give a list of examples of deceptive ideology in actual practice at Fox. Bet a nickel you can't do either.

[smith288]

You can be ideologically aligned but still be fair and balanced in the reporting. Hume is conservative but also gives fair time to the likes of Juan Williams and Mara. Just because Brit doesnt pose with Fidel Castro doesnt make him a poor journalist.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Overholser was fired by the Des Moines Register for being less than completely truthful...

[goodnesswins]

Ms. Geneva Overholser....(BIO)

University: Medill School of Journalism

Degree: M.S.J.

Major: Journalism

Year of Graduation: 1971

Professional Summary: Geneva Overholser holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, for the University of Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington Bureau, and is a frequent commentator on media. Ms. Overholser wrote a syndicated column for the Washington Post Writers Group from 1998 to 2001. Before that, she was ombudsman for the Washington Post and, from 1988 to 1995, editor of the Des Moines Register.

Previously, she served as a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, deputy editorial page editor and editorial writer for the Des Moines Register and reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun. She spent five years overseas, working and writing in Kinshasa and Paris.

She holds a bachelors in history from Wellesley College, a masters in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a French language certificate from the Sorbonne. She has received honorary doctorates from Grinnell College and St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and alumnae achievement awards from Wellesley, Northwestern and Medill. Ms. Overholser was a Nieman fellow at Harvard and a Congressional fellow with the American Political Science Association. She was named "Best in the Business" in the American Journalism Review, and "Editor of the Year" by the National Press Foundation.

She has been named a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002 received the Anvil of Freedom Award. Under her leadership, the Register won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for a series on the rape of an Iowa woman. She and her husband David Westphal, McClatchy's Washington bureau chief, have three children, Laura, Nell and Paul.

[mass55th]

I take it that means she's not going to the dinner either. In that case...I'll take her ticket.

[sauropod]

Geneva can go pound sand.

Palestinian Nina is hardly an objective journalist. Brit Hume does a very good job IMO.

Is Geneva the chick that always introduces the speakers at the NPC events?

[Republic Rocker]

Everytime some moron like this woman misses the reality that the major news outlets are liberal leaning.....See the 3 biggies at the NY TIMES, CNN and now BBC all stepping down for being so....