All About the "News"

A couple of days ago, I had taken my car to a nearby garage for a general check over and an oil chance. As I had finished work for the day, i elected to sit in and wait with a book to read as it was going to take about 90 mins for the car to get seen and sorted out. I was happily reading away in the waiting area, where there was a TV on in the background with the FOX Channel News on. Now, i'd never really taken the time to actually bother watching FOX News before as i'd heard that it was rather politically slanted to say the least being somewhat pro-Republican. Indeed, some of my American friends had confirmed this in the past. Given the current events in politics (the 2008 US presidential election in case you're not aware of it), it was obvious what was going to be in the headlines. Namely Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Although i have to say that this was probably biased in itself towards Barack Obama - maybe they see him as the main threat to John McCain. Who can say?

Anyways, the topic of discussion at the time was about a questionnaire that Mr. Obama had filled in about 12 years ago in which he had expressed his opinions at the time. What was presented as 'horrifying' to the viewer by the newsreader was that he was, at that time, even MORE liberal than he says he is now (I believe he is said to be more middle of the road these days). The female newsreader went on that 'he was AGAINST capital punishment in all circumstances, and wanted to BAN all handguns'. What struck me more was the tones of absolute disgust that she read these in - like it was just horrible to even consider. Now, i was sat there thinking 'And this is a bad thing, how?' but they even wheeled in 'experts' to talk about this in a similar fashion. The one person who they had that seemed to defend the position or, at least, point out that John McCain has changed his mind in the past and why were they not having a go at him, was pretty much talked out of the discussion and looked down upon. When i told my friends about this after the fact, they laughed and said 'Yep, that's FOX news for you'. One has to wonder though, with such an 'impartial' media outlet, is there ever going to be a fair vote these days?