"Fox News has changed the rules. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News. Rupert Murdoch's cable cabal is now, first and foremost, a political entity. Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, which, of course, is unprecedented for a media company in modern-day America. That partisan embrace means the news media have to expand beyond typing up Fox News-ratings-are-up and the White-House-is-angry stories, and it needs to start treating the cable channel for what it is: a partisan animal. The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players --not to get bogged down in criticizing the competition -- because those newsroom rules no longer apply. Fox News has exited the journalism community this year. It's a purely political player, and journalists ought to start covering it that way." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Excellent. Time for the attack! Fox will be defenseless against the fact attack, because all they have is hot air and a lot of shouting. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

it's probably best to assume that all media is partisan, and be pleasantly surprised if it ever turns out otherwise :D - Mike Chelen

@Mike: true, but Fox is not just biased, they purposefully report lies and half-truths as facts. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

Rene: bias is to be knowingly misleading. isn't that typical yellow journalism? - Mike Chelen

@Mike: I wouldn't go as far as stating that bias is to be knowingly misleading. I would define bias as having a preference. In this case, Fox doesn't have just a preference: they make up facts to support their preference and to dismiss or undermine the alternative. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

Rene: although viewpoints are always subjective, it is refusing to look for bias that guarantees an increase of objective discrepancies. how can anyone start to be unbiased without self-criticism? - Mike Chelen

They have been a republican-mouthpiece for years now, why did it take MM so long to call them out? - dthree

@Mike: agreed, hence the reason why Fox is not just unbiased, they are completely lacking the self-criticism. If you look at MSNBC you can clearly see they are biased, but they are also self-critical. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

The key to the concept of bias is having a vested interest. For instance, nearly every journalist who's a native son of a democracy is bias toward values based on democratic principals—no one I know personally is going to complain about a beat reporter doing their job with that bias in full swing. Fingers are pointing at the Fox enterprise in particular because they've wholesale *divested* their interest in anything outside the present incarnation of the hardline conservative political culture. - Micah