If there’s one thing the Media Research Center will not do, it’s admit that Fox News is has a right-wing bias perhaps even more pronounced than that of the “liberal media” it loves to rail against. It will refuse to do so even when the evidence is right in front of their collective faces.
An April 12 MRC item by Scott Whitlock touts how John Stossel said he “left the liberal confines of ABC News ‘because it sucked there.'” While Whitlock portrayed Stosse’s disdain for ABC as evidence of its purported liberal bias, Stossel’s statement that he “begged” for a job at Fox News was not portrayed as what it is — evidence that Stossel wanted to work somewhere where his right-wing ideology would be tolerated.
Meanwhile, going completely unmentioned by the MRC is even more damning evidence of Fox’s bias. As Media Matters detailed, washed-up Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have both accused Fox of being biased toward Mitt Romney, and that bias helped Romney become the presumptive Republican nominee.
We couldn’t find Santorum’s or Gingrich’s accusations mentioned anywhere on MRC’s NewsBusters, the most likely place for them to appear.
Funny how an organization that screams about bias regarding every other news organization suddenly can’t find any on Fox News? But that’s the way it’s always been — the MRC has been cultivating this blind spot for years.