Saturday, September 20, 2008

Rainey trashes Fox News

Which isn't news. In today's column, LAT columnist James Rainey expresses disgust at Fox News and especially at Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren over their interviews of Sarah Palin and her husband Todd. The interviews were informative but not to Rainey, who must have had an ulcer. Rainey, judging from what he wrote, was looking for hard news and didn't get it. 

But Hannity and Van Susteren are sort of like LAT columnists. You don't expect them to be impartial. They don't do hard news and Rainey was wrong to expect it of them if he truly did -- and isn't just blowing smoke. Hannity and Van Susteren are no more biased than Rainey and other LAT columnists such as George Skelton and Tim Rutten. Fox News is at least as fair and balanced as the LAT, but a partisan like Rainey wouldn't admit that.

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