Re: FoxNews ...

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

I haven't watch much of Fox during the crisis so I can't offer any opinion.
I rarely tune to Fox for news.  I see them as talk radio on television.
Entertaining, and sometimes informative, but not the place to tune to for
the news.

One problem that I did see last week was that all the anchors made little
distinction between the various talking heads.  There were various former
Secretaries and former Ambassadors on TV.  They were simply offered as
experts and little was done to make it clear to the average voter what
administration the person had served in.  The former foreign policy types,
of both parties, all have an ax to grind because they don't want people to
think that the policies of their administration helped get us to where we
are today.  It is probably still too soon to ask such questions but I think
people like Bill Cohen and Jim Baker, for example, are as interested in
defending their own records as they are offering information and analysis.
Less known faces, such as academics and private sector foreign policy
experts, might provide analysis without the political baggage.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine