Wednesday, April 09, 2003

During the Clinton impeachment trial in 1999, as the senators signed their names in the oath book swearing they would be fair and impartial, Peter Jennings, who was anchoring ABC News’s live coverage, made sure his audience knew which senators were conservative—but uttered not a word about which ones were liberal.

--Bernard Goldberg, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, p. 57 quoted at the Daily Howler, 2/1/02


Number of times the word "conservative" appeared in George Gurley's profile of Ann Coulter in the 8/26/02 New York Observer: 6.

Number of times the word "liberal" appears in George Gurley's profile of Eric Alterman in the current New York Observer: 17.

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