Surprise! “Fair and Balanced” Means “Fair and Balanced”.

Four years ago, an enterprising duo from the University of Chicago and Stanford crunched some numbers set up by the group Americans for Democratic Action. The ADA has, since 1947, rated members of Congress based on their voting records to decide how “liberal” they are. The pair who wrote the paper used a similar and elegant method to calculate the same quotient for news outlets. They cound that the one that came closest to the median score for the members of Congress was Fox News.

In other words, Fox News was by far closer to “fair and balanced” than any other MSM outlet studied in the paper.

Now, there is another study, done by the Center for Media and Public Affairs of George Mason University. Guess which network’s evening news show was the most “fair and balanced”? I’ll let the study tell you.

The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University ….. found that Fox News Channel’s evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks.

Well, my, my, my. Would you look at that?

The host of that show is Britt Hume, the man that strikes such fear into the Democratic candidates that they refused to attend a debate he was scheduled to moderate.

Huh.

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Category: Oh, THAT liberal media., Political Pontifications