I find it comical when any mainstream media outlet is considered "fair and balanced." None qualify. Citing that one is less slanted as a reason to champion another is equally comical. Fox didn't cover the corrections story at all and CNN put one story up days ago. The corrections must not have been all that earth shattering. There are probably far better examples of selective coverage to drag onto the board for any of the "News" outlets.
Every media outlet is slanted. They always have been. What make Fox News special are two things:
1. With a few exceptions, they don't do news, only propaganda.
2. They heavily market themselves as objective purveyors of reality.
What Fox News does would be far less worthy of criticism if they simply dropped phrases like "Fair and Balanced" and "We report; you decide" and replaced them with "We're conservatives; deal with it."
Even the most respected media outlets will engage in this behavior sometimes. I mean, with the Hillary book, who has been Fox News' partner in crime throughout? The New York Times, generally considered to exist somewhere on the spectrum between genuine journalism and bleeding heart liberalism, depending who you ask. I mean, I don't even like Hillary all that much, but even I felt bad reading what they were saying about her in the Times.
MSNBC has copied FNC's journalistic style (read: business model), but not their marketing campaign. They don't claim to be objective at all.
CNN isn't really slanted as much as it's useless. 99% of what they do can be paraphrased as, "I'm Wolf Blitzer, and I'm on CNN. And you're not."
During the UK election returns, CNN didn't even mention them, instead staying live on Tom Brady's speech at whatever that was, to see if he'd address the report. That's what CNN is now. It's 24 hours per day of TMZ.
BTW, I know it's probably easier, being a much smaller country with a much more simplied electoral process, but the election coverage on BBC was astounding. American outlets could learn a thing or two about how to cover election returns. They spent a lot more time setting up interviews with actual players, and a lot less time playing with holograms.
For the most part I don't watch cable news at all. I get more out of a half our of CBS or NBC in the evening than I do from hours of cable news. If I catch any news on cable, it's almost always going to be BBC or Al Jazeera.
