If so, this is a rather weak strategy. There is definitely a point to be made about media bias, but simply lumping all of these outfits together, from NBC to the Washington Post doesn't do it. Most of the people who work for these news agencies neither know nor like each other. They may have a similar worldview, and that's worth pointing out. But "guilt by association" seems a rather strange strategy for a conservative lawyer interested in individual rights to support.
This string of quotes concept is vintage Coultur. Ann relies on a technique known as "reporting by Lexis-Nexis." She looks up quotes in her database of news articles and then throws in a few zingers. She's good at the zingers and that makes it entertaining. But she's wasting her talent by not getting out and reporting her own stories. Instead, she just complains about liberals.
A very good writer once said that if you're writing an opinion piece, unless you call and interview someone who disagrees with you, you probably won't write a good one.
NYT ed: The Fox News Presidential Adviser
The New York Times ^ | 11/21/2002 | editorial board
Posted on 11/20/2002 9:12 PM PST by Pokey78
Politicos who morph into journalists do themselves and their new profession no favor if they fail to shed their partisan habits. Roger Ailes, the vinegary chairman of Fox News, shows no sign of understanding that. Not long after Sept. 11, we learn from Bob Woodward's new book, "Bush at War," Mr. Ailes advised President Bush how to cope with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. That would be fine, were Mr. Ailes still in the business of advising political candidates, but as a top executive of a news organization he should know better than to offer private counsel to Mr. Bush.
Mr. Ailes's action seems especially hypocritical for someone who has spent years trumpeting the fairness of Fox and the partisanship of just about everybody else in the news business. Fox's promotional slogan is: "We report. You decide." But the news channel has a Republican tilt and a conservative agenda.
Mr. Ailes, a former Republican strategist who helped the president's father win the White House in 1988, has argued that his missive contained not political counseling but personal advice about presidential policies. The difference hardly matters in the world of journalism.