Fox News has “news” shows and “opinion” shows, just like a newspaper reports news stories and also has an opinion page. O’Reilly and some others on Fox are commentators, while someone like Shepherd Smith is a news anchor. Rarely will you ever see Shep skew the news — he reports it with objectivity. O’Reilly, on the other hand, is clearly identified as an opinion commentator, so he can interject his opinions as he sees fit. Why doesn’t anybody seem to recognize the difference? I can tell when news is being reported and when commentary/opinion is being offered. Those who can’t surely are sheep. When Fox reports news, they do it objectively, and when they offer opinion, it is skewed to the conservative. What’s the problem? Are you going to tell me the MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann isn’t skewed to the left? He’s a commentator as well.
Of course, the argument that follows is that Fox chooses only news that fits their idealogy. I’m not sure if that’s true, but if it is, who cares? Once again, don’t the “liberal” news organizations do the same?
