Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Bair and Falanced ay mass



SO. Been doing a little research here about Fox News's coverage of the whole number-of-American-soldiers-lost-since-the-war's-formal-end-exceeding-the-number-lost-during-combat thing that happened today. After noting the fact that the picture of Bush on the front page was taken from a low angle, thus pictorially deifying our president, we decided to look for pictures of Dean and Kerry. Found one of Dean, taken straight on (thus not deifying the presidential candidate), and couldn't find one of Kerry at all. (Thus ignoring, perhaps, the existence of that presidential candidate.)



But the more interesting thing to note is that when I searched the words "John Kerry" in the search box on the front page of Fox News, the following three Fox News articles came up:


1) "Bush to Address American Legion in Missouri"

2)"Topics and Guests, August 25th"

3)"Rumsfeld: We've Got Enough Troops in Iraq"



One out of three of these stories mentions Kerry, one time. (Criticizing Bush.)

It takes another click (on the "More Fox News Results" link) to come to a page containing links to actual stories about Kerry.



Perhaps Fox has a problem with their search engine?