Here's the way I look at it. Fox news covers the news the way the right wing wants to see it. MSNBC covers the news the way the left wing wants to see it. Some of either stations' news coverage we don't see on the mainstream. If those news pieces become a hit however, the MSM picks them up, and grabs the pieces of information they want, to cover the story their way. I don't think any of that is a problem as long as we as viewers understand the rules.
Now on this...
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I actually watched CNN that day looking for news on the Washington Rally. I knew it was happening that day. I, unfortunately, do not get Fox News, so I could not watch it there.
Sanchez is right when he says there was coverage on CNN. He's playing with the facts a little by implying the coverage was extensive.
There was a much smaller democratic rally in Minnesota that day. Obama was giving a speech there. CNN chose to give all day extensive coverage of that. I think the speech itself appeared in it's entirety. In other words - note to Rick Sanchez -
"CNN promoted that Minnesota rally".
Every time I surfed over to CNN the Minnesota coverage was playing. From time to time they would give a little squib about what was happening in Washington. On those occasions, I found they directed me to think of the Washington rally as tiny, insignificant, and only of interest in that they showed the fringe element which attends such events to be radical, misinformed, and racist. Check that out if you like. Observe those clips of CNN's coverage in the Sanchez video above. Tell me you don't think they indicate probable bias. BTW, they may have shown that tower shot Sanchez claims for CNN, but I don't remember seeing it until the following day, and I saw it elsewhere. They may have shown it, but it would have been brief, with misdirecting pontificating over-top the shot.
I've since seen more extensive coverage of that Washington rally. After having viewed both sides, I now think, CNN's newsbite coverage was biased, and dishonest. I didn't see Fox's. I imagine similar criticism could be leveled at them.
Nevertheless, Fox covered it as a major event. CNN did not. In advertisement hyperbole that makes "not covered" a legitimate, advertising point, I think. (Wanna check the advertising claims of CNN for complete veracity?). What Fox advertisers are really saying is "not covered the way such a major event should have been". Or for me, not the way I wanted to see it covered when I kept switching back to CNN that day looking for coverage.
Rick Sanchez should get off his high horse. I've watched his show. Any criticism leveled against Beck, could be leveled against Sanchez, except Sanchez does it for kind of the left. Beck does it for kind of the right. That, and Beck does it better. That's why more people watch him.
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