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Detractors say Fox owes its success to conservative viewers drawn by rightist-skewed news. Fox says it simply provides a "fair and balanced" alternative to liberal-media bias. Either way, it would be naive not to see that the channel, home to a raft of conservative personalities like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, is a comfortable home for right-of-center viewers. But while it is tempting to see Fox's success in red America-vs.-blue America terms (i.e., Bush regions vs. Gore regions), there is as much a cultural as a political divide, manifest as much...
...wore a Versace dress. Though her makeover was widely praised, there are still those who insist on finding fault with the Clintons. On naturallycurly.com a website for women pumped with ringlet pride, Chelsea earned a mention in the Hall of Shame for her "horrifying example of anti-curl bias...
Books by conservatives are hot these days, but it still comes as a surprise to see that Bernard Goldberg's Bias (Regnery; 232 pages) has bounced to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. The former CBS News correspondent caused a stir in 1996 when he published a column in the Wall Street Journal complaining that a snide CBS Evening News piece about presidential candidate Steve Forbes was an instance of biased reporting. The book expands that charge into a broadside against liberal bias in the media. Goldberg, though foaming a bit at the mouth, lands...
...settling. CBS News executives come across as duplicitous scoundrels, and Goldberg claims that Dan Rather, after assuring him just before seeing the Journal editorial that "we were friends yesterday, we're friends today, and we'll be friends tomorrow," hasn't spoken to him since. Which may explain why Bias is No. 1. Press critiques are for journalism schools; any book with a chapter called "Mugged by 'the Dan'" has got a real shot...
...Bias against married women is hardly new: As recently as the 1960's, it was routine for school boards across the country to fire female teachers as soon as they married. The assumption, I guess, was that it was only a matter of time before a married woman would start popping out the kids and of course this very inconvenient past-time would interfere with the fulfillment of her chosen profession...