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IS THIS AN EXAMPLE OF CONSERVATIVE BIAS IN THE MEDIA?

[+] serious ballot by cranky
ACTIVE Jan 23,2007 - Sun Oct 18, 09

CNN Debunks False Obama ‘Madrassa’ Smear

Last week, Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch outlets amplified a right-wing report alleging that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic “madrassa” school as a 6-year-old child. One Fox News caller questioned whether Obama’s schooling means that “maybe he doesn’t consider terrorists the enemy.” Fox anchor Brian Kilmeade responded, “Well, we’ll see about that.”

Commenting on this report today, Wolf Blitzer said that CNN had done “what any serious news organization is supposed to do in this kind of a situation”: actually investigate and learn the facts. CNN’s Senior International Correspondent John Vause filed a report from Indonesia.

In the report, Vause says, “I’ve been to those madrassas in Pakistan … this school is nothing like that.” He also interviews a classmate of Obama’s who says the school was not even strictly Muslim; it also taught Christian, Buddhist, and Confucian students. (Think Progress)

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So does this story, as presented by conservative Fox News, which lies to make Barack Obama look bad, represent conservative bias, or merely incompetence within this major media outlet with regards to fact checking?

Bias	6
Could be both	6
Incompetence	2
Definitely both incompetence and bias	2

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Could be both
But let's not be too hasty in judging FOX. After all, their motives have a track record of being pure as the driven snow.

by mojo on Tue Jan 23, 07 9:24am [+]

Voted : Definitely both incompetence and bias
Just plain bad.

by skylab on Tue Jan 23, 07 11:02am [+]

Voted : Could be both
Probably *is* both. Once more, I consign the entire Fourth Estate to death by thirst.

by Truthseeker013 on Tue Jan 23, 07 6:27pm [+]

Voted : Incompetence
I think it could be ignorance of the fact that not all Islamic schools are "madrassas".

But it isn't surprising if there is bias as well- as Fox News is right-wing. And I'm not surprised that CNN would go out of their way to report this, as they are baised to the left.

by xxxxxxxx on Wed Jan 24, 07 9:27am [+]

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