Sounds about right.

What is the proper role for Congress WHEN the president has a Six year record of proven incompetence at every level?

Sounds about right.

Not to break up the mindless trolling, but as a comment on the actual article at hand:

FOX News can host an official Democratic debate just as soon as, and not before, Air America is made official host of a Republican debate, or something similar. Not before.

Until then, a 3rd-grader could figure out that an acknowledged outlet for Republican propaganda and fake news is not the logical host for debates among Democratic candidates.

This is not, of course, a matter of "censorship"; someone apparently needs to look up the definition of the word if they think that this matter has ANY resemblance to censorship.

Censorship, after all, requires that some speech be actually censored. No such thing is occurring here.

The DNC wants to marginalize a recognized news agency. This is the first step in censorship that will get worse if they are allowed full control of the government.

Air America is comparable to Ruch Limbaugh not Fox.

You guys just can't handle having a news source that isn't controlled by the big three networks and that doesn't parrot the views of the dem party.

It's pretty obvious to everyone that Fox has a slant. The deaf and blind know they have a slant. Yes, CNN recently added that conservative nut job, I mean pundit, to Headline News, but c'mon, Fox has a whole lineup of them. I just don't understand why they don't embrace it. Why do they keep trying to pretend they're a traditional news source?

I'm not-- right at this moment, anyway-- trashing* Fox. I'm thinking of the practical side of branding. They are providing a service to a certain segment of the population who wants to see the news told to them in the context in which they see the world.

And there isn't anything wrong with that, as far as I can tell; that's the free market system at its best. Give the people what they want. Do it well and they will buy it. Keep doing it and they will keep coming back. What's wrong with that? I don't understand why they don't just openly embrace their mission and their audience.

As for whether this compares to Air America or conservative radio-- both. The news bulletins they do at the top of the hour compare to the news division at Fox. This news is filtered through a particular context, and that's OK with me, because I know what I'm getting, just like I can anticipate how the War Room folks will come down on an issue. The punditry is an obvious match to conservative radio because it's apples and apples. The punditry also matches with the op-ed-style shows like O'Reilly and Hannity.

But Air America embraces its identity. My local station has a tagline that says, "Where the Left is right and the Right is wrong." I mean, my goodness! I think that's going a bit far, to say that's your mission statement, rather than, "Let's look at what the Right is doing/saying and see if they're wrong" (which admittedly is sucky branding). My point is, I can shake my head at that branding, but at least they're flat-out telling me who they are.

I just don't understand why Fox doesn't want to embrace what it is. The only thing I can think of is that they already had the self-admitted Righties on talk radio and whatnot and what they wished they had was a legitimate news source they could point to that would be telling the news in their context. (For example, Hannity might have wished that he could back up a particular point by citing a news source, only he couldn't find one that would tell the news his way, so they created that for him.) If that is the case, then I guess it would be critical to maintain the illusion that Fox is "real news". But I think that ship has sailed, don't you? Don't they? They'd garner more respect if they just said, "Fox News: Where we're Right and you Suck Eggs" like Air America does.

It's really no secret that people like hearing the news in their own context, and there is a market for that, and Fox is the product, what is shameful* about that?

[*OK, yes, yes, Fox is often shameful. You won't catch me again giving them this much slack, because yes, their "contextual news" is damaging to our country, especially when it's the only news Darth Cheney listens to. But I'm really just trying to talk branding here without making those kind of judgement calls for this post.]