[DED]

"Critics snicker at the red-, white- and blue-festooned screen and say the network ... offers opinion, not news."
What's new about this - ABC, CBS and NBC have been doing this since the days of Walter Cronkite. For liberals, when it's Brokaw, Rather, or Jennings, it's news, when it's Bill O'Reilly, it's biased.

Conversation overheard a couple days ago in a customer's office:
First guy: I'm sick of watching the news about the war on CNN. First we're up, then ten minutes later, we're down. It's depressing!
Second guy: That's what you get for watching CNN; can't you get Fox News?

Yes, I know it sounds like a commercial, but that's exactly the way I heard it.

[patriciaruth]

We're all walking commercials for FOX News, every time there's an opportunity. And it's not because it has great news coverage, because it really is a grade C operation. But it's because it has been the only place on TV you could hear our side of the story.

I happen to know about biased reporting from personal experience. We had an accidental pesticide spraying of some farm workers in my area about 14 years ago. Plane sprayed the wrong field. The grower had a plan in place, had a doctor all ready picked out and a plan--they go home or whereever, wash, change clothes and go straight to the doc. Doc was out, but I was there, his colleague. We saw about 35 people very efficiently, nurses asking a list of questions, drawing blood test, and doc (me) going from room to room doing exams.

One of the things we checked was whether the women were pregnant, and test came back that one was, so she got special attention and followup from me, but she never had any symptoms or blood test abnormalities.

CBS reported the story about the poor farm worker who was sprayed with pesticide and was pregnant and hadn't even seen a doctor. I, an M.D., had seen her three times before this story came out. I was the one who had told her she was pregnant, which was news to her.