FoxNews.com: Flaunting Conservative Bias

During the 2000 campaign, Fox News Channel officials were furious at the Gore / Lieberman campaign.

After it was announced that Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman as his VP candidate, the senator made his rounds on all the various TV news networks. All, except for one: the Fox News Channel.

Fox News executives were furious, apparently, after a campaign aide told Fox they had been excluded because it had "a certain editorial predisposition and because of that you will sometimes be left out."

Should Fox News execs be surprised if such an incident occurs again? And is such righteous indignation warranted?

The Fox News Channel's right-wing bias has already been established by numerous reports, including The Columbia Journalism Review and The Boston Globe.

The most comprehensive, however, came from a FAIR survey conducted last year that surveyed the Fox News Channel's lead political show, "Special Report With Brit Hume," and found it over represented conservative views. It also noted "the most obvious sign of Fox's slant is its heavily right-leaning punditry." Indeed, a single indicator of the poor presence of "balanced reporting" can be seen with Fox's most noted liberal: out-of-work radio disc-jockey Alan Colmes.