The New York Daily News reported yesterday that Fox News personality Sean
Hannity introduced Rudy Giuliani at a closed-door $250/head fundraiser in
Cincinnati on August 9. Bill Shine, Fox's senior vice president of programming,
said Hannity should not be judged according to the standards of journalistic
ethics, which speak out against actively helping a candidate in such a manner.
"Sean is not a journalist - Sean is a conservative commentator," Shine said.
"Sean doesn't hide, and never has hidden, his beliefs from anyone."
I have to agree that he is not a journalist. The way I look at it is that if his network knows that he is doing this, and his viewers know that he is doing this, they can make their own choices. If the network is concerned about how this will effect viewers, they will tell him that he needs to stop or get another job. Viewers have the choice of watching the show or not, he is clear in his bias and where he stands on the issues. Viewers who don't want to hear that kind of bias from a news show have the option to change the channel. If the viewership slips the network will either shut him up or can him. I get tired of the assumption that viewers don't have a voice, in the end it is the viewers voice alone that counts.
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