CNN, MSNBC Cut Republican Candidate's Mic!
During Tuesday night's coverage of the Massachusetts special election, CNN and MSNBC aired only a fraction of the Republican candidate's speech. Fox News Channel aired both candidates' speeches in their entirety.
When Martha Coakley (D) took the podium to concede the election, all three channels aired most or all of the eight-minute speech. However, Republican Scott Brown's address was cut short on CNN after just seven minutes. On MSNBC Keith Olbermann cut Brown's mic and instead attacked the Republican candidate, talked about "teabaggers", and ran commercials. CNN only ran 26% of Brown's speech, while MSNBC aired 37%. Fox News Channel carried 100% of both speeches:
(Sources: videos, Brad Wilmouth)
Yes, we know the Brown speech ran longer (27 minutes). But really, isn't this exactly the sort of thing Media Matters would trumpet if positions were reversed? You know it is. fox news mm
MainelyRight
And that's why we watch Fox
January 20, 2010, 4:14:42 PM EST – Like – Reply
Independent
So, another way to look at it: CNN ran about seven or eight minutes of each speech, and Fox spent three times as much time covering Brown's speech vs. Coakley's?
January 20, 2010, 7:19:45 PM EST – Like – Reply
furious
You remind me of an old story, Independent.
A thief grabs a woman's purse, knocking her into the path of an oncoming bus. A bystander grabs the woman by the arm, pulling her out of the bus' path.
Independent, standing across the street, thinks: "Hey, look at those two guys pushing around that woman!"
January 20, 2010, 8:25:50 PM EST – Like – Reply
Guest
I simply don't understand how people can think Fox is overly biased. It baffles me. Here is another example of how they present both sides. Thanks for the bringing this to light.
January 20, 2010, 4:18:11 PM EST – Like – Reply
Guest
Fox leans right just as MESSNBC leans left. The difference is that Fox has a more diverse guest list than does MESSNBC.
Of course the left doesn't approve of most of the democrats that appear on Fox. They think they are weak.
My theory is that the uber left democrats won't appear on Fox for fear of being ripped apart.
Liberals cannot debate logically. They resort to attacks and name calling when cornered.
January 20, 2010, 5:49:34 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Welcome Hot Air, Media Blog, and Nealz Nuze readers!
January 20, 2010, 4:18:29 PM EST – Like – Reply
TBinSTL
Fox only appears biased by comparison to the other, liberal, insanely and consistantly biased news programs. When actual balance looks like bias, it should be obvious that there is something seriously wrong....but I'm preaching to the choir here.
January 20, 2010, 4:26:10 PM EST – Like – Reply
Guest
Everyone knows there is a bias. Now if we can just get them to stop SAYING they are not biased, and therefore not journalists, then we can all go to our respective corners and watch the bias we want.
January 20, 2010, 4:27:23 PM EST – Like – Reply
Blackflon
I don't recall Fox ever saying they were not biased.
January 20, 2010, 5:50:44 PM EST – Like – Reply
Dennis
Thank You Johnny dollar, great to be here. You are now bookmarked and I will return. Have a great day all. I know I am.
January 20, 2010, 4:29:35 PM EST – Like – Reply
Jason
At least Mika from Morning Joe came out and flat out said the media needs to be up front about their bias.
She says that the hidden bias is the very reason FOX News even exists.
January 20, 2010, 4:30:14 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mary C
I checked foxnews.com and of course Scott Brown...huge picture last night.
I went immediately to cnn.com just because it entertains me to compare and contrast. The only picture was one of Coakley. Yeah, SHE'S the news.
January 20, 2010, 4:31:33 PM EST – Like – Reply
Paul B.
Very good point. Brown's speech was overly long and rambling, so there might be some temptation to truncate, but this was a singularly important election, so there is no excuse for cutting him down to 25 or 37% levels.
January 20, 2010, 4:40:11 PM EST – Like – Reply
Robin
But, it was a very good speech - especially the parts wehre he was laying down what he believes. He may not be a "Republican", but he is surely a conservative. And that's enough for me.
January 20, 2010, 4:53:19 PM EST – Like – Reply
Phyllis
Fox news is great, I enjoy all of it very much and I do think they try to be fair. You cant say that about MSNBC and Abc or Nbc. CNN does a fair job.
KO, CM and Rachel all were telling the Dems. to push the health care through anyway, boy are they Obama's people or what? They sure aren't "WE THE PEOPLE"
I pitty them!
January 20, 2010, 4:55:32 PM EST – Like – Reply
drjohn
Very nice analysis.
It's so repetitive to say that liberals s*ck.
But what the heck.
Liberals s*ck.
January 20, 2010, 4:56:32 PM EST – Like – Reply
Tina
I linked here from Instapundit.....so the graphic is getting lots of views. Please note, neither mediaite nor TVNewser have this posted. What does that say about them????
January 20, 2010, 4:57:37 PM EST – Like – Reply
Phyllis
Oh" Morning Joe" is ok! I sometimes wonder about Mika (sp)
January 20, 2010, 4:58:32 PM EST – Like – Reply
laurel
WHAT DID POTTY MOUTH ED SCHULTZ HAVE TO SAY? His dirty 20 votes wouldn't have done a darn thing, right?
January 20, 2010, 4:59:13 PM EST – Like – Reply
Pablo
Was it just me, or did anybody notice how Scott Brown's speech ended just before American Idol began on the west coast?
January 20, 2010, 5:08:50 PM EST – Like – Reply
Jed Skillman
Its kind of fun to tune into the Mainstream Media once in a while just to see what's on their minds. I would never do this when anything important is going on, but once in a while its good to hear their commentary and guage how their minds are working. It would make an intersting thing to study. Somebody should write up a proposal and stuff it into a highway bill sometime.
January 20, 2010, 5:15:28 PM EST – Like – Reply
livermorn
Did you notice that Obama blames...wait for it, wait for it...Bush(!) for the Republican victory!?!!?
The only thing spinnning more than this is Ted Kennedy's pickled corpse!
So, dissatisfaction with a Republican President who has been out of office for a year drove the nation's most ardent liberals to vote for another Republican to fill the vacant seat of their most cherished and 'lionized' ueberliberal?
I can see Olberman and Maddow buying this, but no adult will.
Link to interview here:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/president-obama-scott-brown-massachusetts-victory/story?id=9611222
January 20, 2010, 5:20:45 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Brit Hume had a masterful comment about this on Bret's show tonight.
His deadpan delivery was classic.
I don't see any video of it yet but I'll keep looking.
January 20, 2010, 7:46:41 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mike
The story of the night was not Scott Brown winning. It was Coakley losing. Plain and simple. The narrative is how a democrat with a 30 point lead completely blew it in MA, not how a centrist republican managed to win.
You are right that Media Matters would trumpet this sort of thing, but is that the standard you want to hold yourself up to? If you flip your metric to raw on-air time (probably a better metric since that's a news producer's currency), the left wing argues that Fox is the biased one.
January 20, 2010, 5:25:52 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Well that was kind of my point, the way Media Matters manipulates its metrics to produce the results they want. In 2004 they attacked Fox for spending more time on GOP convention speeches than the equivalent speeches at the DNC--without mentioning that the GOP speeches were much longer, with some running overtime past 11:00 (which the other news channels also covered). It was strictly a way to ding Fox by manipulating data. (I also disagree that the big story was not Brown but Coakley, since they are really the same story. But that's not the main point I'm responding to.)
January 20, 2010, 5:39:08 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mike
Don't the commenters here realize that Fox News essentially campaigned for Brown and is now serving as the Palin rapid response team for criticism? Isn't that bias? Or is that just responding to others' bias? Conservatives deserve better than Fox News.
January 20, 2010, 5:42:28 PM EST – Like – Reply
livermorn
Mike:
Perhaps a reference? All too often, in my personal experience, liberals equate giving voice to opposing opinions as hate or bias.
And I agree that conservatives deserve something better than Fozx News. Too bad there isn't anything out there.
January 20, 2010, 5:52:47 PM EST – Like – Reply
jgreene
I really don't care what CNN or MSNBC broadcasts because I NEVER listen to them; they have a small audience of liberal whackjobs who can't THINK. I would expect no less of them that they ignore the words of the WINNER of an historic Senatorial Race and is the beginning of a NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
January 20, 2010, 6:07:21 PM EST – Like – Reply
Jim
notice, fox gave them about equal time ... and the liberals always cry fox isn't fair. they always point their finger at us not realizing the old saing that they have three other fingers pointing back at them. They try so hard to spin the facts and they always Fail. Fox News is the only worthy news outlet for me and my family. We don't trust anyone else, especially MSNBCand CNN for the very reason the graph shows above. Good job!
January 20, 2010, 6:19:53 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
The far left is the most vocal when it comes to anti FNC stories. but the far right does have its own issues with the channel. One example could be the whole "birther" issue. The next comes from WorldNet daily who attacked FNC because they had some one from CAIR on (oreilly two weeks ago?). WND right now I guess is trying to expose them (CAIR) for what they really are. Then a few years back I read two articles-one claiming that FNC was too liberal while another which took the other view.
January 20, 2010, 6:56:40 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Brit Hume's commentary on Bret Baier's show tonight:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3974401/brit-humes-commentary-120
January 20, 2010, 8:01:37 PM EST – Like – Reply
Valerie
If CNN had ever bothered to come clean about why they let one of their VPs run around for two years telling everybody who would listen that US forces were "targeting" journalists, I might never have left them. And, if there hadn't been a better product out there that I discovered due to my dissatisfaction with CNN, I wouldn't follow FOX now.
The simple truth is that FOX tries to get the facts right, it mostly confines their news reporters to reporting, and is straightforward about the bias contained in their opinion programming. For all these reasons, they are head and shoulders above their competition, and the audience numbers show it.
And, they have Greta.
January 20, 2010, 9:04:54 PM EST – Like – Reply
James Mayeau
Say Johnny, what happened to Oberwatch?
Don't tell me your forcing the staff to watch bathtub boy.
That's just mean.
Should be a law against it. Sort of like waterboarding the help!
January 20, 2010, 10:14:32 PM EST – Like – Reply
StewartIII
ChickaBOOMer: Soup To Nuts
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2010/01/it-took-about-three-seconds-into-scott.html
January 21, 2010, 12:11:18 AM EST – Like – Reply
SMSgt Mac
A point I haven't noticed anyone make yet: What Senetor-Elect Brown as the 'victor' has to say is far more relevant to the country than what the 'loser' has to say. We SHOULD expect him to say more, and coverage of what he has to say should be greater. THAT is fairness - to the American people.
January 21, 2010, 1:15:54 AM EST – Like – Reply
Devin
Wow, someone's got a lot of time on their hands. Gotta love their arguments. Oh wait... They don't have one except for childish insults.
January 21, 2010, 5:50:35 AM EST – Like – Reply
Tina
It must be Schuster, Olbermann or Maddow coming on board to rant. They have gone off the deep end and getting lots of bad press as a result. Thanks to Johnny$ for posting the links about MSNBC.
January 21, 2010, 6:24:26 AM EST – Like – Reply
James Mayeau
Could be Marsha Chokely, displaying the usual grace of a freshly defeated Democrat.
January 21, 2010, 8:34:05 AM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
The torrent of spam against this site, originating from Naperville IL, was a direct response to the impact that this post has had. Given the predominately vulgar nature (many of those were blocked automatically) it's either an immature schoolboy or a moron suffering from arrested development. But we have the IP, some unique tracking data, and page after page of evidence. Sometimes it's good to have a background as a prosecutor. Internet harassment is in fact a crime, and there are people in jail right now for doing what Pa... what this guy did. The report has already been filed.
January 21, 2010, 10:32:12 AM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Sorry I missed them! But who could be behind it???? Let's see, Illinois, immature schoolboy, moron, arrested development, vulgarities, harrassment. I don't know who this little feller could be, but I do hope that someday they do grow up.
January 21, 2010, 2:24:06 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
A few days ago the lil feller claimed he was done with this site and was going to stop the harassment. You could just about start the countdown...3...2...1...before that statement became 'inoperative'.
January 21, 2010, 2:48:33 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
I suppose every site has a lil feller type, Johnny.
Have you ever considered that he may know you in a past life (if you catch my drift)?
January 21, 2010, 3:03:12 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
I noticed the spam. It had to be alot of work to delete all that stuff off here
January 21, 2010, 11:50:12 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Not with an ISP, I think.
Bob Cox of Olbermann Watch deleted hundreds of troll posts going back several years with a flick of the switch.
January 21, 2010, 12:03:09 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
nice. The faster the better
January 21, 2010, 12:18:31 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
The Einstein behind this thought that adding hundreds of vulgar comments would make the site slow to respond. Actually the moron did all that work for nothing. Comments don't affect the speed of the site at all; they are on completely different servers. The comments are hosted by Echo who have humungous capacity that treats the moron's spam as what it is: a drop in the bucket. And no matter what you put there, this site is on a completely different, secure server that the moron can't touch.
January 21, 2010, 12:19:24 PM EST – Like – Reply
RICHARD SCHLOSSER
You have to nip it in the bud or it will get out of control very fast.
January 21, 2010, 12:00:38 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
J$ - Neal Boortz linked to your graph on his NealzNewz blog today. Outstanding!
January 21, 2010, 2:05:30 PM EST – Like – Reply
NewRedStater
You really have to ask why? The left loves to whine and bitch about Fox News being biased. MSNBC & CNN are much worse.
January 21, 2010, 3:22:51 PM EST – Like – Reply
BG
Um..I'm not finding thw video for this story for a source. Can someone provide a source for this graph? When I click the source link, it takes me to Brad's page, but I can't find a story regarding the graph.
January 21, 2010, 4:35:54 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
The videos were my videos from the DVR on election night. Wilmouth and others confirmed the stats I had and filled in the ones I didn't have.
January 21, 2010, 4:50:26 PM EST – Like – Reply
BG
My personal experience watching the coverage seems to support this, but as we both know anyone can make a graph. I would like to find some specific info regarding specific times regarding each, or some verifiable sources. I'm debating a freind regarding this as we speak, and of course, the other side is never happy unless confirmable data can be presented.
January 21, 2010, 5:20:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
NetworkDr
BOR just boosted your traffic by a logarithmic "factor" by showing your graph. I opened my laptop and came straight here.
Nice site, with what appears to be lots of nice people. I'll be back regularly.
January 22, 2010, 8:26:13 PM EST – Like – Reply
pete
wheres the data to back up this graph? typical bs.
January 23, 2010, 8:09:02 AM EST – Like – Reply
captfoster
Here is how much Cluster Fox can be trusted with giving a fair take on anything:
http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html
After reading this, ask yourselves, why would a 'news' provider feel the need to go to court to argue that it collectively has a legal right to lie about what the truth is?
January 26, 2010, 10:42:24 AM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
You are so wrong about this Captain. This is such old crap resurrected again and debunked by J$ long ago. Read and learn.
http://johnnydollar.us/2008a/sre267918713.html
January 26, 2010, 11:29:17 AM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Thanks I.M. It is amazing how people will parrot the most preposterous things without checking the facts. It's also interesting that the Captain's comment didn't address the graphic we posted or dispute its accuracy.
January 26, 2010, 11:45:11 AM EST – Like – Reply
Blackflon
Can you produce the part of the ruling that says Fox is allowed to lie? Didn't think so.
You probably never read the actual ruling.
January 26, 2010, 12:58:05 PM EST – Like – Reply
Ben Hur
You called it.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/29/fox-obama-retreat/
January 29, 2010, 5:10:26 PM EST – Like – Reply
