The second largest newspaper in the US devoted text on Friday to admonishing the partisan Fox News network for bias in its hard news programs.
After a series of leaked memos revealed that one Fox News boss tried to "slant" the news, The Los Angeles Times suggested that the conservative network should stop calling itself an objective news source.
As December began, liberal watchdog group Media Matters released an e-mail showing that Fox News' Washington managing editor instructed the news department to refer to the health care reform public option as the "government option."
The e-mail indicated that Bill Sammon sent the request after Republican pollster Frank Luntz said that polls show that the term "government option" was opposed by the public.
"Please use the term 'government-run health insurance' or, when brevity is a concern, 'government option' whenever possible," Sammon's e-mail said.
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