It’s logic that could only apply at the Media Research Center: Fox News’ obsession with reporting only negative news about President Obama doesn’t mean it has a right-wing bias, it means the rest of the media is liberal.
That’s exactly what Clay Waters posits in a July 19 MRC TimesWatch post complaining that a New York Times article accurately pointed out Fox News chief Roger Ailes having “professed to be steering the network toward a ‘course correction,’ an acknowledgment that it had shifted too hard to the right.” But in Waters’ funhouse mirror, even Fox admitting its bias doesn’t mean it’s biased — rather, it means that all non-Fox media has a liberal bias:
New York Times media reporter Jeremy Peters unwittingly revealed the widespread liberal bias of the media in Thursday’s report on how the Fox News Channel has really gotten under President Obama’s skin: “Jokes About Fox News Creep Into Obama’s Comments as the Campaign Heats Up.”
[…]But whether he realizes it or not, Peters’ analysis says more about the stark lack of Obama-scandal coverage in the liberal media than it does about slant at Fox News.
And what is the prime example of Waters serves up? “The Media Research Center documented that it took five days for the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks to even notice Obama’s remark from last Friday denigrating individual initiative: ‘If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that; somebody else made that happen.'”
Needless to say, Waters is displaying his own bias by taking Obama’s words out of context. Not that anyone at the MRC thinks that’s a bad thing (when it comes to Obama, anyway).