Today marks the addition of a new feature here at Yes, But, However! “Bait and Switch” or B&S, pun intended. We’ll chronicle web news and opinion outlets’ misleading or over-hyped headlines. The point is to highlight the instances when, for example, Daily Kos, FOX, MSNBC, or Hot Air report a story highlighting the foibles on the right or left while ignoring the same misdeeds on the other side.
Our first installment targets a mild form of Huffington Post mislead. The headline reads “Dennis Miller Knocks Hannity, Beck On Fox News.” Actually, Mr. Miller simply calls Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck partisans. It can easily be argued that Sean Hannity is a GOP partisan, but we concur with Mr. O’Reilly that Mr. Beck is just “a guy! He’s not a journalist, he’s a guy.” Mr. Beck’s status as a regular Joe apparently scares the left terribly. Mr. Beck is actually more like Howard Beale than anything else. The Huffington Post only highlights the 4 minutes of the clip that drives their headline and leaves out the beginning of the exchange.
Video of the entire clip below:
We chose this as our first installment because it is impossible to imagine The Huffington Post including a piece about someone on the left knocking Keith Olbermann. The story is currently running on The Huffington Post’s homepage.
The difference between this category on YBH and Media Matters for America for instance is that we will not focus on one side of the ideological spectrum. Fox is as fair game as CNN here.
Mr. Miller and Mr. O’Reily also discuss the Dalai Lama and Tom DeLay on “Dancing with the Stars” in the segment.
Media misreporting tips can be sent to staff@yesbuthowever.com.
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