Fox News gives postive coverage to Ron Paul for a change

[Created4]

The current front page of the Fox News website has 3 Ron Paul stories based on his interview with Chris Wallace aired today. They took out his comments about Bernake and the Fed and made that into a separate story:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/28/paul-bernanke-is-out-options-to-save-economy/

They also took his comments about FEMA and made that into a separate story, although not as good as what is in the actual interview:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/28/paul-fema-is-real-disaster/

Then of course there is the main story and interview, which they are billing as the media ignoring Ron Paul (which was not even discussed in the interview):

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1133006273001/media-ignoring-ron-paul/?playlist_id=87485

It is pointless to discuss whether Fox has an agenda or likes or dislikes Ron Paul at this point. They are a business, and they are running with stories that they know are of interest to their readers right now and will drive the most traffic to their website. So when the media gives coverage like this, please try and post the links to the actual sources to encourage them and their advertisers, rather than to Youtube. Ron Paul is a "hot" topic right now, and let's keep it that way.

[Legend1104]

The first one was actually a really decent read. That is actual news reporting. It did not have any bias and just simply reported the news. There is nothing wrong, for example, with a company wanting to pick sides and go against candidates, but the minute they start calling themselves a news company, they then morally have the responsiblity to only give information in a nonbias way (unless of course it is in a talk show or option column). The fact that Fox has more air time devoted to talk shows than actual news coverage means they should drop the title "Fox News."

[Created4]

Bias will always be present in any news organization. But they are businesses also. They can only survive by publishing things people want to read. Fox is figuring out that they get good traffic when they talk about Ron Paul. Also, their bias is against Obama, and plenty of people at Fox are Paul supporters.