Ameritocracy

Oct2008

Brad Friedman accuses Fox News of being “fair and balanced”.

Check it out right here at ye olde Ameritocracye

Of course, I’ve buried the lede here, pretty dramatically, by disguising the true story - the arrest of GOP worker Mark Anthony Jacoby in California for registration fraud. The story just happened to break during an interview with Friedman on Fox News, and he took the opportunity to rein in Fox’s obsessive coverage of the ACORN non-scandal.

Here’s the video:

Ameritocracy is here to help you help others and you (was that too meta?) sift through the noise and half-truths that too often are passed off as “information”. Here’s an interesting case of actual information coming to the forefront so forcefully and immediately that even Fox had no choice but to cover the Jacoby story (which they later did).

So says Friedman:

Host Julie Banderas asked me, kindly, near the end of the segment (video below), if I’d felt they’d been “fair and balanced” with me during the segment. I believe they were, which was much appreciated. Though I wish I had answered “Yes, you were, thanks. In this segment. And I hope you’ll have me back to discuss the GOP’s ACORN ‘voter fraud’ hoax, about which you guys have been anything but fair and balanced over the last week or two, and, in fact, dangerously unfair and unbalanced.”