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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Fox News Again One-Sided In Its Notre Dame Coverage

I was moving through some channels and caught a Fox News live broadcast from the graduation ceremonies at the University of Notre Dame. As most people are aware, a relatively small but vocal group of narrow-minded bigots are angry because President Obama (who is pro choice) is the commencement speaker and is being given an honorary degree. Fox News has one of its moron reporters Griff Jenkins (who looked like an idiot when he tried to ambush Janeane Garofalo outside of a coffee shop) on the scene doing some “reporting” of the days events. Jenkins’ reporting, however, has been anything but fair and balanced from what I saw. He spoke at length about the people who are protesting (the idiots who are being arrested and the more dignified silent protesters) and he also talked about people who are considering withholding donations to Notre Dame because of the controversy of President Obama being allowed to speak there and being awarded the honorary degree. Where was the reporting about the people who are annoyed by all of this attention from these wing-nut protesters ruining their graduation day? Where are the reports on people who applaud Notre Dame being open to people speaking even if they have a differing opinion? Where are the advocates of free speech and freedom of thought who were whining when Miss California Carrie Prejean was supposedly punished for her anti-gay marriage opinion? It seems that Jenkins’ less-than-stellar reputation as a reporter continues. His report, at least the one that I saw, was neither fair nor balanced and certainly appeared to be ideologically driven.