are Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, etc., etc,. considered journalists? They all have opinions and leanings they just aren't as honest about them.

Glenn thinks Hume isn't a jounalist because his views aren't what Glenn wants to hear. An objective journalist wouldn't say the things Hume does. He would still editorialize but the right way about the right subjects.

It's very comforting to me that after all the years of having to listen Cronkite and Rather, people like Glenn have to listen to Hume.

And Hume has probably been a journalist longer than Glenn has been alive.

Now, FAIR and the others are not exactly "everyone in the world," but then again I was speaking, as you know, hyperbolically.

No, you were speaking inaccurately. The fact that you, your like-minded friends and Media Matters realizes what Hume is does not mean that "the whole world does" or - more to your point - that there is no point in documenting Hume's ongoing inaccuracies. As the post demonstrates, many mainstream media figures (Mark Halperin, Howard Kurtz, Charles Gibson) speak of Hume as a respectable and objective journalist. His status as a moderator for the Democratic presidential debate further demonstrates that.

So the fact that you, your friends a couple of liberal website say bad things about Brit Hume hardly means that his inaccuracies should not longer be documented. In fact, that is precisely why Media Matters has 170 entries about him, rather than just one.

I apologize for both of my earlier posts. Thank you for clarifying your point.

Glenn,

I had high hopes for your comments section here; it seemed you were moving "up" and the comments here would continue to be of the high quality debate that we had on your own site, if not better- after all, you mentioned that a dealbreaker for your new job would be keeping a high quality comments section. But that's obviously not so- at least not yet. Just reading the comments here, with totally disingenuous and assholic comments by Daleyrocks and "joe" (just read his "comment" right above yours on this page) obviously have nothing to do with debate or integrity.

I'd love to continue reading you like I used to, but reading disingenuous and deliberately disruptive comments that have nothing to do with the topic or debate is not what I'm interested in. I'll, of course, continue to read your column, but your comments section was always what I loved about your old blog, and while it was rough at times, you'd definitely turned it into a high-quality forum for debate and discussion. I hope that eventually you'll do the same here.

You were still breast-feeding when Cronkite retired (meaning you were about ten or twelve). Corporate media has bled the news operations into perky Kutesy Katie Kouric feel-good infomercial fast food for the downsizing Murkan brain, with its three minute attention span. The hardest hitting news on tee vee is on the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I stopped watching nitwit news a decade ago; there's no there there. And fuxxsnooze is so nazi-fied it would be laughable if it weren't for all the trailer park knuckledraggers like Joe the Ho who buy it all the same way they shop at Mall Wart. Pathetic.

Perhaps for every smart thing said by an analyst on NPR, another one should say something stupid. And for every truth told, they should also trot out a lie. Then the right would be happy.

the fact that Juan Williams is Fox News' chosen Democrat is hardly a strong point in proving how much of a leftist he is.

Fox routinely uses the likes of Dick Morris or their favourite Democrat, Joe Lieberman as the "voice of the left" in their "balanced" debates. Hint: Fox likes to use Democrats who will bash Democrats in their pieces. They loved Zell Miller. Who "balances" belligerent and vocal Sean Hannity? Colmes. Colmes is actually a liberal, but no match for Hannity in volume.

Wake me when CNN uses Lincoln Chafee or Jim Webb to represent the Republican party or conservatives in its debates. Webb was a Reagan official you know, just like Dick Morris worked for Clinton.

So pardon us if Fox's opinion of what constitutes a strong voice from the left doesn't sway us to find Juan Williams to be our equivalent of Brit Hume.

First, is there any precedent for someone masquerading as a "news anchor" -- and who is widely treated as such -- making such an explicit personal attack on a leader of one political party ...

Um, Dan Rather, who still won't admit that the "memos" reported on were a fraud.

And Dan D., Fox puts far leftists on all the time: Al Sharpton, spokespeople for various Democratic campaigns (why do some many of them tend to be blond women, by the way?), Hennigan or Hannigan (gray-haired guy who sits in for Alan Colmes sometimes), a heavy-set guy who speaks for the DNC often (sorry on my lack of specific names--I tend to just listen for a few minutes before I get tired of all the shouting--from both sides), and so forth.

I see far more representatives of the Left on Fox News than I see of conservatives on so-called MSM news and opinion shows.

And, by the way, Fox should not use the name "News" in its title because, objectively speaking, so few of its shows are straight-news and don't pretend to be. They're mostly opinion shows. O'Reilly. Hannity & Colmes. The blond crime-mucker who got a head transplant (er, face lift), sorry, can't remember her name either.

Elephant man, thanks for your answer. Am I right in this? Are you saying that John Stossel, Laura Ingram, and Bernard Goldberg are, in your opinion, the great conservative voices of the current day?

No, what I said was that those are three people who would be obvious counterparts to persons who are otherwise cloaked in the respectability of NPR.

You want great conservative voices, every day and every week? They are there for the reading in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal and in the Weekly Standard. I urge you to subscribe today.

Public television (PBS) used to broadcast the Wall Street Journal Editorial Report weekly program. However, the "facsists" in Congress trying to "unfund" PBS (and here I thought it was listener-supported!) must have been sleeping when PBS unplugged the WSJ. The program is now on Fox. But when have the Journal's Dan Henninger, Bret Stephens, Jim Taranto, or Kim Strassel been on NPR?