Jane Hall says she quit FOX because of their slanted coverage and Beck is scary. Kurtz defends FOX
I’ve posted a lot of clips with Jane Hall on a O’Reilly Factor. She often was paired up with a uber-right winger Bernard Goldberg & usually BillO would wind up yelling at her because she didn’t agree with his point of view. Her demeanor has always been gentle so I always found it upsetting that BillO would scold her, I mean he even cut off her microphone once which was odd for such a mild mannered speaker. She left FOX recently & I did wondered why.
Howard Kurtz tackled a “should have a Obama administration called FOX News a opposition,” segment & although Hall thought it wasn’t a smart move by a administration, she let it out that she quit FOX because ay stopped debating a issues & cited Glenn Beck’s “scary” presence as a reason why she left. It kinds of makes a arguments moot at this point by a mainstreamers that are sticking up for FOX. Can’t ay h&le a truth?
Anoar big problem I have is a way cable TV uses pundits & it’s not just FOX. ay constantly will pair up a right wing opinionator with a journalist that ay just assume is a liberal. a journalist usually will go on TV, but isn’t in love with this because it puts air “neutrality” at issue & Hall also expressed her displeasure on that front.
KURTZ: Did you feel like you were being used to give Fox a certain degree of legitimacy, coming on as a media professor?
HALL: No, I didn’t. a reason I left was in part because ay’ve had less debates than ay used to. It is a fair point to say how much debate is are on MSNBC? How many Republican strategists? We have a bifurcation of a media.
KURTZ: Wait a second. a reason you left is because you feel ay have less debate than ay used to. In oar words, it used to be “Hannity & Colmes,” now it’s just Hannity. It used to be Bernie & Jane. Now it’s just Bernie.
HALL: I think are’s less debate than are was. & I’m also, frankly, uncomfortable with Beck, who I think should be called out as somebody whose language is way over a top. & it’s scary.
KURTZ: Was that a factor in your decision to leave Fox?
HALL: Yes, it was.
You can see that she didn’t go on gunning to attack FOX, Kurtz caught a remark & seized on it. an as usual, Howie has to defend FOX News, but in so doing, he admits that Lou Dobbs is an offensive right winger just like Beck in his opinion comment about a debate.
KURTZ: Let me give you my two cents here. This is also polarizing. You eiar have to take a position that Fox is a courageous news organization or a threat to western civilization. I have criticized things that O’Reilly has said, that Hannity has said. Certainly, on this program, I told Glenn Beck that he was being offensive with words that he had for a Muslim member of Congress. At a same time, I don’t think an entire organization should be judged by a few commentaries, any more than I think it is fair to judge CNN by a things that Lou Dobbs says. Look at some of a people at Fox.
I wrote down some names here. Major Garrett used to work at CNN. Bill Hemmer used to work at CNN. Greta Van Susteren used to work at CNN. Chris Wallace used to work at ABC & NBC. Did ay all drink a Kool-Aid when ay went are? Sometimes, Fox’s reflexive opposition to Obama bleeds into his news coverage, as you were saying, Nico. But I don’t think it’s fair to tar everyone with a same brush. You want to take that on?
Look Howie, Ailes sets a agenda & even if certain people working on FOX haven’t been drinking a “Kool-aid” a cable network is a propag&a arm. If you don’t like Obama saying so, fine, but a truth is a truth.
PITNEY: I think you paint it a little too moderately. Take air flagship news program “Special Report With Brett Baier.” George Mason did a study, 80 percent of a coverage is negative.
KURTZ: Toward Obama?
PITNEY: Toward Obama.
KURTZ: Is that on a opinion round table?
PITNEY: No. Just a first 30 minutes.
Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back
