The Broward-Palm Beach New Times, has made a crucial discovery: Fox News really IS fair & balanced. As the paper writes, in its latest issue, "Maybe there's some truth to that 'fair and balanced' slogan after all." Yup. Actually there's a lot of truth in that slogan, as the article makes plain. FNC plays it down the middle, which is enough to make everyone mad, at one time or another--in this particular case, that someone is Peter LaBarbara, of the conservative Americans for Truth, which is mad that FNC gave a small grant to the liberal-leaning The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. Talk about man bites dog--that's the story line of the New Times piece.
The point has always been, for 10 years now, that much of the rest of the media are so tilted toward the left, and toward the p.c., that they all think that FNC is a bunch of vast-right-wing-conspirators just because FNC is not like the MSM.
FNC is FNC. It plays it down the middle. Nobody's perfect, of course, but this incident demonstrates that FNC is independent, and no slave to any particular ideology.
As Brit Hume likes to say, FNC is "fair, balanced, and unafraid." Let's hope that never changes, no matter who's happy, or unhappy. The truth doesn't have to hurt, but it doesn't have to feel good, either. The truth is just the truth, period, and fair is fair, and balanced is balanced.
