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Brit Hume Talks About the Success and Uniqueness of Fox News
By Lyndsi Thomas (Bio | Archive)
July 21, 2008 - 13:42 ET
When the Bush administration reported that 15 of 18 political benchmarks set for Iraq had been met, which is nearly twice as many that were met last year, only Fox News reported on the story. And during his July 2 report, Brit Hume predicted that the story wouldn’t gain much traction elsewhere:
I suspect that this broadcast tonight -- and maybe some others on this channel -- are the only ones who are going to make a headline out of this. This is not going to be a big story elsewhere.
As Hume predicted, CBS’s “Evening News,” NBC’s “Nightly News” and ABC's “World News Tonight” did not mention the story in their broadcasts that night.
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Responding to claims by other journalists that Fox News does its reporting with a slanted viewpoint, Hume had interesting insight as to the ability of journalists to be truly objective:
None of us is objective. You can’t be objective. But what you can try to be is fair.
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You’re a sentient, thinking, human being. You’re going to have views in reaction to things. But I’ll say this about it. I believe that fairness begins with an awareness that no, you’re not objective. And it is your professional duty and responsibility to be aware of that. And to carry that with you into the work that you do so that you can be fair.
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You can think if you go to a hearing and you think that the politician whose running the hearing is obstreperous personality, whether it’s Phil Graham or Barney Frank, that you think, I got to be careful here.
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We as journalists are or should be professionally trained to do that as well. To go out and assess a story based on its news value and to order it and prioritize what we see in such a way as to reflect news values and report it that way. Full Article
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Not only did Hume correctly predict how the liberal main stream media would ignore the political gains in Iraq, he also does something that no other news anchor would dare do... Tell the truth about personal bias!
I have noticed that people in the news media who have a conservative bias (which are few) don't have an issue admitting it, while those in the media who have a liberal bias (the overwhelming majority) refuse to be honest about it. Why is that?