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August 13, 2009

The Watchdog of Cable News

Steve Rendall of the media monitoring organization FAIR talks about the corporate bias inherent in cable news and elsewhere.

Michael Gluckstadt

Any liberal worth his arugula can—and will—tell you that much of Fox News's "Fair and Balanced" coverage is actually fraudulent and biased. But it takes a true believer to sift through pages of transcripts and hours of footage of Glenn Beck just to show you how biased he is. Steve Rendall, senior analyst for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), took on the challenge, duly noting outrageous statement after outrageous statement from what he calls Beck's "bizarre barking rant" of a show.

Rendall has been working at FAIR for more than 21 years, and is the co-host of their national radio show, CounterSpin. FAIR is a media watchdog organization whose aim is to sniff out corporate bias. While admittedly left-leaning, FAIR and Rendall scan the full spectrum of the media for instances of questionable journalism—and they usually find something to get upset about.







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