NYT/AP: Democrats, Fox News Channel Lock Horns (News or editorial?)

[FreeStateDemocrat]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 15, 2007
Filed at 12:40 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Democrats running for president seem to find Fox News Channel as ripe a target as President Bush, a development with dangerous implications for both the network and the politicians.

Fox has tried twice, without success, to set up a debate with the major Democratic contenders. Both times they failed because of pressure applied by online liberal activists, who consider Fox biased toward Republicans and conservatives.

The first debate, which was to be co-sponsored by Fox and the Nevada Democratic party, had been set for this August but was canceled. Fox then teamed with the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute for a Sept. 23 debate that is still scheduled, even though John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all said they won't attend.

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The risk to this strategy is it could make the candidates look like, well, weenies.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-AP-on-TV-Democrats-vs-Fox.html

This was listed under "news" (my quotation marks) from AP and Reuters. The last sentence quoted bothered me and reminded me of biased Fox "news" reporting. The NYT did not differentiate between hard news and opinion which this story clearly is and further may have confused the reader by placing the by-line last.

[Kolesar]

1. I cannot pull up the article because I am not a paid subscriber

I think you are on to something, though