"Frothy, slanted and off-point" Todd and Sarah Palin interviews challenged even Fox's low standards

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Todd and Sarah Palin unchallenged in Fox interviews
Given the opportunity to address substantive issues in interviews with the political couple, Fox News hosts Hannity and Van Susteren instead pander to their partisan audience.
By JAMES RAINEY, ON THE MEDIA
September 20, 2008

Fox News tough guy Sean Hannity assured us this week he would press Sarah Palin for real answers -- no going easy on the woman who could be the next vice president of the United States. "No topic," Hannity intoned, "is off limits."

A couple of nights earlier, Fox's hard-talking lawyer, Greta Van Susteren, promised to take us to unknown places in her exclusive interview with Alaska's so-called First Dude, Todd Palin. "You will see this," Greta declared, "nowhere else!"

No, you won't. And mercifully so. Because Hannity and Van Susteren produced three nights of infotainment so frothy, slanted and off-point that they challenged even their cable network's low standards.

Fox boss man Roger Ailes would desperately like to have his stepchild accepted into the family of respected news sources. And the reporters who deliver many of Fox's reports have been known to battle their employer's partisan biases.

But given a chance to address real issues, and possibly even make news in two encounters with America's most intriguing couple, Fox instead condescended to both Palins, with Van Susteren's cringe-worthy paean to Arctic beauty and Todd Palin's machismo, and Hannity's weak-kneed idolization of Alaska's governor....

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia20-2008sep20,0,6608969,full.story

[babylonsister]

1. I'm glad the Palins and Faux are being called out; this is beyond

ludicrous. She wants to be VP, but Faux won't challenge her? Not acceptable.