Home About Chat Users Issues Party Candidates Polling Firms Media News Polls Calendar Key Races United States President Senate House Governors International

New User Account
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource." 
Email: Password:

  Fox host: ‘It’s now my great duty to promote the tea parties. Here we go!’
NEWS DETAILS
Parent(s) Media 
ContributorArmyDem 
Last EditedArmyDem  Apr 14, 2009 09:44am
Logged 0
CategoryBlog Entry
News DateTuesday, April 14, 2009 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionFox News host Neil Cavuto regularly claims that when he aggressively advocates for the anti-Obama “tea party” protests on air, he is simply covering them as a journalist. But Stuart Varney, Cavuto’s fill-in host, admitted this afternoon that the the network is actually promoting the right-wing protests. After telling a guest that the tea parties were in protest to President Obama’s policies, Varney closed a segment by saying, “It’s now my great duty to promote the tea parties. Here we go!” Watch it:



In a Washington Post online chat today, media critic Howard Kurtz said that “it makes me a bit uncomfortable the way the channel has turned these April 15 protests into something of a crusade, complete with the drumbeat of advance publicity and the above-named hosts planning to attend various tea parties. But it’s not fair to say that Fox’s reporters are jumping on this bandwagon.” Fox News bills Varney as a “business journalist.”
Share
ArticleRead Full Article

NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor

DISCUSSION