In Wednesday's Washington Post, media reporter Howard Kurtz profiled Fox News Channel's Brit Hume with the headline "Moving to the Right: Brit Hume's Path Took Him From Liberal Outsider to The Low-Key Voice of Conservatism on Fox News."
It's
obvious from the headline. Once again, Fox is the only ideological news
channel. In Kurtz's stories in the Post, the liberal media is usually
treated as the objective media, never as liberal as they believe Fox is
conservative. On April 4, Kurtz broke the Katie Couric story with the
headline "CBS Prepares to Land a New Anchor." Liberal
bias was not even mentioned in the story, as liberals worried about
"residual sexism." The day before, the Keith Olbermann headline
had only the right, not the left, in the headline: "A Gadfly With Buzz: MSNBC's Olbermann, Exercising the Right." On April 7, Meredith Vieira's arrival at NBC landed the bland headline "Who Wants to Be a Morning Host." (MRC did appear in that piece, in paragraph 19.) Last year, Bob Schieffer was "CBS News's Unstuffed Shirt." When the media pounded on Team Bush over Katrina, the headline rejoiced: "At Last, Reporters' Feelings Rise to the Surface." (Fox was included in the list of angry Katrina networks.)
