FAUX NEWS - WE DISTORT, YOU COMPLY! (FAIR dispatch)

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Though Fox News Channel wraps itself in slogans of journalistic
evenhandedness, FAIR's latest study of Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume finds the network's flagship news show still listing sharply right. In one-on-one interviews, conservatives accounted for 72 percent of ideological guests, and Republicans outnumbered Democrats five to one. And, according to the study, Special Report rarely features women or non-white guests in these prominent newsmaker interview spots: 83 percent of guests were white males.

The study, featured in the August issue of Extra!, was commissioned by
filmmaker Robert Greenwald for the film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. The film will screen across the country on Sunday, July 18 at house parties organized by MoveOn.org; you can find the screening nearest you at http://action.moveon.org/outfoxed/.

* Conservatives outnumbered progressives by more than five to one. Fifty seven percent of Special Report's guests were ideological conservatives; 12 percent were centrists, and 11 percent were progressives (while 20 percent were non-ideological). Among ideological guests, conservatives accounted for 72 percent. This marks an increase in left-of-center guests since 2002, when a mere three percent were left of center-but also an increase in conservatives, up from 48 percent.

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"Fox is depriving its viewers of real debate and some important and
dissenting views," said FAIR's Steve Rendall, co-author of the study.

The complete report can be accessed online at:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0407/special-report.html.

For more information on Outfoxed, visit http://www.outfoxed.org.

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