] Brit Hume is the Fox anchor who helped orchestrate the
] Republican-led 39-hour Senate talk-a-thon intended to
] counter the Democratic filibuster against four of
] President Bush's most radically conservative judicial
] nominees.
] Hume and fellow anchor Tony Snow pitched the idea
] outright to Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist on Fox
] News Sunday, challenging the Senator's repeated
] contention that an all-night protest session would be
] counterproductive. Two weeks later, the two-day marathon
] session was announced.
] Having successfully prodded Frist to hold the all-night
] session, Hume sought special coverage of the event.
] According to a leaked email, a producer for Hume's
] evening news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, worked
] directly with a staffer for Senator Frist, in an effort
] to choreograph the launch of the Republican protest as a
] "live opening shot" for Hume's November 12 newscast. As
] reported in The Hill, the leaked memo read:
] "It is important to double efforts to get your boss
] to S-230 on time ... Fox News Channel is really excited
] about this marathon and Brit Hume at 6 would love to open
] with all our 51 senators walking onto the floor -- the
] producer wants to know will we walk in exactly at 6:02
] when the show starts so they get it live to open Brit
] Hume's show? Or if not, can we give them an exact time
] for the walk-in start?"
] Hume's behavior in this incident shatters any illusion of
] 'fair and balanced' journalism. Worse, it evidences an
] effort to orchestrate PR coups for Bush Republicans.

[ fair and balanced indeed. what a travesty of newspeak. journalistic integrity? what's that, and who needs it? -k]

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