Nerve Endings Firing Away

On election night, Fox attracted many more viewers than MSNBC — until Mr. Obama was pronounced the victor. During the midnight hour, when Mr. Obama spoke in Chicago, MSNBC averaged 5.6 million viewers, compared with Fox’s 3.9 million.

An interesting tidbit from a story commenting on MSNBC’s seemingly controversial new tagline – The Power of Change. MSNBC’s critics are shouting hoarse on the blatant channel’s liberal bias. Talking about the right’s allegation that the media was in the tank for Obama, I was quite tickled by Olbermann’s comment post-election that it seemed like the majority of American voters were in the tank for Obama.

It is unfortunate that news networks no longer are considered non-partisan but Fox News’ ‘Fair and Balanced’ is much to blame for this state of affairs. MSNBC merely moved to the left to fill the gap in the market for liberal viewers. They might have thought if the public thinks it is a liberal media, we might as well give them that. Poor CNN is still undecided on which way to pander.