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	Fair and balanced - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fair and Balanced is a slogan used by the American news channel FOX News Channel.
		Critics claim that the network does not practice what it preaches and that the network has its own conservative bias.
		Al Franken used the slogan in the subtitle for his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right) on the subject of media bias, especially that allegedly present at the FOX News Channel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fair_and_balanced (273 words)

	Solonor's Ink Well: Fair and Balanced Friday
		But on the fair and balanced whole, their lawsuit against Al Franken for using their "trademarked" tagline of Fair and Balanced is going to score major brownie points with the RDC teacher.
		On the fair and balanced theory that the entire blogiverse is too big to sue, all fair and balanced bloggers are called upon to take a fair and balanced look at the lunacy that is this suit.
		Tomorrow, be fair and balanced (or not) in your use of the term "fair and balanced".
	www.solonor.com /archives/001530.html (390 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Pajamas Media Question #1 - What Is "Fair and Balanced"?
		Fairness means not cherry-picking the facts to reach a conclusion, but reporting all of the relevant facts, and then making your conclusion correspond to all of the facts.
		Balance means providing a forum for others (whether part or not part of your organization) to present opposing viewpoints, argue about the emphasis on different facts, debate and discuss the merits of an argument and so on.
		Of course, the "fair" in "fair and balanced" tends to be redundant; it generally connotes a reasonable accommodation of the various points of view, and is nearly indistinguishable intellectually from the concept of balance.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/05/pajamas_media_q.php (13890 words)

	Fox vs. Franken - Salon
		FNC's balanced approach to reporting the news has become extremely popular and FNC is now the most watched 24-hour news network in the nation...
		He is inextricably linked with Fox News and the "Fair and Balanced" trademark in the minds of the viewing public...
		Indeed, as Franken admitted during [a recent Los Angeles book expo], the "Fair and Balanced" trademark was, in fact, used on the preliminary cover of the Book for the express intention of capitalizing on FNC's reputation...
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/08/14/fox_v_franken/index.html (1158 words)

	Moore's Ax Falls on a Derelict Media Too
		The words "fair and balanced" have been largely discredited in recent years because of the Fox News Channel, which uses them to mean not that Fox takes an objective, evenhanded approach to the news but that the cable channel is redressing the purported liberal bias of the mainstream news media, balancing them.
		Even before Fox appropriated them, the words "fair and balanced" had been yoked as if they were somehow synonymous, but if by "fair" one means objective and unbiased, then more often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive.
		At the same time, the adherence to balance that has so clearly aided conservatives has made liberals seem like the hapless fellow in a science fiction movie who keeps trying to convince everyone that the kindly new neighbors are actually aliens, only to be dismissed as a paranoid.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0707-05.htm (901 words)

	Geoffrey Nunberg - on "fair and balanced" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That could mean that the court would have to decide whether the slogan "fair and balanced" is an accurate description of Fox News, with the prospect of Bill O'Reilly and Neil Cavuto taking the stand to defend their balance in the face of hostile questioning.
		And of course Fox's "fair and balanced" line was an obvious reference to all the mentions of media bias that we've been seeing in the press over the past fifteen years, more than 95 percent of them referring to liberal or left-wing bias.
		Both "balanced" and "biased" have become partisan words -- anybody who advertises himself as balanced or unbiased nowadays is a pretty good bet to have a right-wing point of view.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/fox.html (931 words)

	Fox fair and balanced
		We expect it from Fox News, in particular, which gives a new meaning to the phrase "fair and balanced." As a matter of fact, we should coin a new phrase-- "Fox fair and balanced"-- to mean: partisan, unfair, skewed, distorted, dishonest, journalistically corrupt, propagandistic, corrupt.
		The problem is, O'Reilly is in the habit of running a "Fox fair and balanced" show, which means he doesn't let the whole story be told, and he controls what facts and lies are told.
		The bottom line is that Fox has taken the phrase "fair and balanced" and made it a joke, a laughing-stock, and turned it from a positive description into a despicable one.
	www.opednews.com /Kall_fox_fair_and_balanced.htm (981 words)

	Weblog Entry - 08/23/2003: "Fair and Balanced"
		Perhaps I do not understand all the subtleties, but the ruling looks fair and balanced to me. On the cover of the book are 4 of the most fair and balanced people in the country today.
		Ann Coulter is the queen of the fair and balanced group.
		She is fair in the way she defames those who disagree with her, especially liberals, who she claims are treasonous.
	www.learningfountain.com /blog/archives/00000056.htm (448 words)

	Fair Use Press
		The mission of Fair Use Press is to publish works of comment, criticism and parody that ridicule, shame and attack those who attempt to subvert the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
		Fair Use Press believes that intellectual-property laws currently are being abused by powerful corporations and individuals as a means of coercion and control, to the detriment of our political and cultural dialogue.
		Fair Use Press is located in the historic Westlake district of Los Angeles.
	www.slumdance.com /fair_use_press (426 words)

	Fox News: Fairly Unbalanced
		A Fox News marketing slogan repeatedly claims that their coverage is "fair and balanced." But if you have to remind everyone constantly that you're fair and balanced, then perhaps it's not so true.
		In an article entitled, "Is Fox News Fair?" The Columbia Journalism Review noted that Fox's hard news broadcasts are usually just a few minutes around the top and bottom of the hour, followed by longer stints of political talk-television, debate, and political interviews coming mostly from the right side of the spectrum.
		But these magazines don't claim to be "fair and balanced." They're proud advocates for their positions, unashamed to be called conservative, and Fox News ought to be just as proud and not hide behind a slogan it doesn't merit.
	www.american-partisan.com /cols/2003/hall/qtr2/0402.htm (793 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Media / Fox News' use of 'Fair and Balanced' challenged legally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fox News' use of the slogan "Fair and Balanced" constitutes deceptive advertising, two political advocacy groups claimed Monday in a petition filed with the Federal Trade Commission.
		The IMI's petition claims that the term "fair and balanced" is so prevalent as to be generic, and is "entirely mis-descriptive" when it comes to Fox News.
		The judge dismissed Fox's case, saying it was "wholly without merit," and the trademark "Fair and Balanced," registered by Fox in 1998, was weak.
	www.boston.com /ae/media/articles/2004/07/19/fox_news_use_of_fair_and_balanced_challenged_legally?mode=PF (564 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Three Little Words: Fox News Sues
		In its fair and balanced way, Fox News refers in its suit to Franken as an "unstable" and "shrill" "C-level commentator" who is "not a well-respected voice in American politics."
		And in its fair and balanced way, the suit filed by Fox News refers to Fox News Channel as that "world famous" cable channel.
		If the Fab Five of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" accomplish nothing else while on the NBC payroll, we will be forever in their debt for having made a little less drab the clueless straight guys seen on the various NBC-owned television networks.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A46985-2003Aug11?language=printer (872 words)

	randyrathbun.org: Backups: a fair and balanced look (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A fair and balanced person would assume that these three events would not happen at the same time.
		But, to add insult to injury, I messed up my fair and balanced backup script that was supposed to make backups of the drive.
		It was bad enough that it took down the server and three Fair and Balanced drives got wacked.
	www.randyrathbun.org /archives/000675.html (355 words)

	Lawrence Lessig
		Well first, start with the question that opened the segment: Fox says it is “Fair and Balanced.” If it is “self-evident” that it is not, then I guess we agree then that it is “ridiculous” to say that it is. And second, “obviously” media critics get this about Fox.
		The issue here is whether “fair and balanced” is a reasonable motto for a news establishment.
		When folks like FAIR count the number of representatives of different parties, or the number of interruptions, or the amount of time allotted to coverage of candidates, these are facts.
	www.lessig.org /blog/archives/002031.shtml (2739 words)

	eclecticism: Fair and balanced
		Fox loses 'fair and balanced' suit: 'There are hard cases and there are easy cases.
		U-District Street Fair: This could be an entertaining way to spend some time this weekend — the annual U-District Street Fair.
		Bombardier Embrio: The Embryo is a single-wheeled vehicle, balanced using internal gyroscopes and powered with a hydrogen fuel cell, emitting only water as its exhaust.
	www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2003/08/fair_and_balanc.html (494 words)

	Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags: Fair and Balanced: revenge of the blogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Let's get the story straight here: Fox News sued Penguin Books and Al Franken (complaint, PDF), claiming that Franken's use of "Fair and Balanced" in the subtitle of his book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" infringes and dilutes Fox's registered trademark in the phrase.
		In true web fashion, bloggers took the case up in spades, adding "fair and balanced" subtitles to hundreds of sites around the 'Net.
		Edward Hugh Is Fair and Balanced: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's...
	wendy.seltzer.org /blog/archives/000075.html (290 words)

	neo-neocon: Fair and balanced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The phrase "fair and balanced" (at least, as I interpret it) is something of an oxymoron.
		And "balanced" means "giving equal play to advocates of all sides of an issue" (a sort of "one from column A, one from column B, one from column C approach).
		That said, I agree with your point about "fair and balanced." It is a type of contradiction that arises frequently in the political realm.
	neo-neocon.blogspot.com /2005/05/fair-and-balanced.html (1660 words)

	Fair, Not Balanced
		In June 1962, John F. Kennedy addressed the budget myths of that moment with balanced wisdom: "Debts public and private, are neither good nor bad, in and of themselves.
		Later, Jimmy Carter was tarred by stagflation, again blamed on deficits though, in fact, Carter was a tightwad, and the deficits were caused by the oil shocks and other events beyond his control.
		In 1980, Carter withdrew his own budget, promising a new one that would be "balanced." Voters reacted by electing Ronald Reagan on a platform of large tax cuts.
	www.motherjones.com /commentary/columns/2005/07/fair_not_balanced.html (841 words)

	Fair Use Press: Fair & Balanced by Brian Flemming
		Playwright Brian Flemming, who co-wrote the Off-Broadway smash hit Bat Boy: The Musical, penned this dark one-act comedy in which "Fair" and "Balanced" are prisoners held in an underground dungeon, and every night at 8 p.m.
		Revised editions of Fair and Balanced are free to First Edition buyers: Purchase of this First Edition Fair and Balanced Adobe Reader book entitles the purchaser to free downloads of subsequent Fair Use Press e-book editions of the play.
		The Fair and Balanced Adobe Reader book is a standard PDF file compatible with Windows and Mac and, like all Fair Use Press publications, has no digital-rights-management restrictions.
	www.slumdance.com /fair_use_press/fair_and_balanced (1411 words)

	Still Failing the "Fair & Balanced" Test
		In previous studies FAIR has found that looking at a show’s guest list is one of the most reliable methods for gauging its perspective.
		When FAIR first studied Special Report in 2001, the dominance of conservative guests was so overwhelming (71 percent of all guests) that we used just two ideological categories, “conservative” and “non-conservative.” The latter included guests with no discernible political ideology.
		The five-to-one conservative-to-progressive imbalance is actually a marked improvement from FAIR’s 2002 study, which found that “left-of-center” guests—three percent of the total—were outnumbered 14 to one.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=1187 (1798 words)

	Fair and Balanced Weblogs - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fair and Balanced Weblogs - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
		In solidarity with Al Franken, being sued by Fox News for using their trademarked "Fair and Balanced" tagline, bloggers are adding the words to their blog titles: See, Atrios, vaara, Maxspeak, Jesse at Pandagon, and Blah3 --all are now Fair and Balanced weblogs.
		We can't join because we are not a neutral or fair and balanced weblog.
	www.talkleft.com /new_archives/003415.html (173 words)

	Segway Not Fair and Balanced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Segway is, by all accounts, self-balancing, and should not be prone to such accidents.
		"Obviously, the Segway is not fair and balanced, unlike Fox News, which is always fair and balanced," Fox star Bill O’Reilly panted.
		He then began a six-minute monologue which bored this reporter to tears, but the general gist of which was that Fox News is good and liberals are spawned from carp and platypi.
	www.dailyhog.com /segway.htm (302 words)

	BunkoSquad: Fair and Balanced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fox News is suing Al Franken because his latest book is called "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right".
		Fox says it trademarked the phrase "fair and balanced" years ago.
		The always-fair and balanced Atrios has a list of who's added the phrase on their web site.
	www.bunkosquad.com /archives/000382.php (239 words)

	The Most Biased Name in News
		In fact, wrapping itself in slogans like "Fair and balanced" and "We report, you decide," Fox argues precisely the opposite: Far from being a biased network, Fox argues, it is the only unbiased network.
		Putting aside the question of what genuine "balance" means, there are undoubtedly a few reporters in Fox's Washington bureau--such as White House correspondent Jim Angle--whose stories are more or less indistinguishable from those of their counterparts at the mainstream networks.
		Fox News Channel is committed to being fair and balanced in the coverage of the stories everybody is reporting--and to reporting stories you won't hear anywhere else.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=1067 (4995 words)

	SuicideGirls > News > Politics > Alternet Challenges Fox's 'Fair and Balanced' Trademark
		You may or may not agree with alternet's assessment of Fox News's journalistic integrity, but it's tough to argue that trademarking a phrase as common as 'Fair and Balanced' and then aggressively pursuing violators of this trademark is good for society in any way.
		But when Fox is allowed to frame its distorted, ideological point of view as "fair and balanced," we're all in trouble.
		Jul 19, 2004 03:44 PM What I've never figured out about Fox is why they insist on the "Fair And Balanced" and "We report, you decide" in the first place.
	www.suicidegirls.com /news/politics/3527 (948 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Fair and Balanced?
		But if you just think they mean that he was voting in favor of a higher burden of proof for the plaintiff than the majority, which in turn would make it "easier" for employers to discriminate without being successfully sued (in comparison to the majority's rule), then the claim makes sense.
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), who's assessment of Hannity andColmes I'm inclined to agree with, is an organization that analyzes news media and media bias from a liberal/progressive perspective, and makes no secret of that fact.
		The work produced by groups like FAIR and Media Matters, or AIM or MRC for that matter should be analyzed based on the substance of their work, not because they are conservative or liberal advocates, which would be a base appeal to motive.
	volokh.com /posts/1132764356.shtml (9821 words)

	CNN.com - Fox News loses attempt to block satirist's book - Aug. 23, 2003
		First, Fox having the trademark 'fair and balanced' -- a network which is anything but fair and balanced.
		Fox objected especially to its cover, which displays the "fair and balanced" phrase in its subtitle and an unflattering photograph of the news channel's most popular host, Bill O'Reilly.
		Franken's attorneys said, trademark or not, the phrase "fair and balanced" is as old as journalism itself, is a principle taught in journalism classes and is "common vocabulary of the news media dating back well before Fox even existed."
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/08/23/fox.franken (964 words)

	Friday is 'Fair and Balanced' day @ Radio Free Blogistan
		This Friday, August 15, is Fair And Balanced day on the Internet.
		You are all hereby instructed to use the words Fair And Balanced in very creative ways on your various websites.
		Maybe I can find another way to be "fair and balanced" on Friday.
	www.radiofreeblogistan.com /2003/08/13/friday_is_fair_and_balanced_day.html (625 words)

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