Fox Is Now More Fair and Balanced. Sarah Palin Joins.

[highwaystar101]

Sqrl said:

highwaystar101 said:
I know why they hired her, shock ratings; but I think she would make a very poor journalist.

Fair enough she can spin facts to suit one party like any good journalist, and that's a skill directly transferable from politics, but I would also imagine she lacks in just about every other area.

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Meh, I don't care, I suppose at the end of the day Fox don't care about journalism. They only care about viewer ratings and the money it generates like any other news channel.

Contributors on FNC aren't journalists.  They basically write op-eds but they discuss their views on air.  Politicians write op-eds in newspapers all the time (ala WaPo opeds and the like) and they aren't considered journalists.

She won't be reporting and breaking news on Tea Parties for instance, but she might react to news about them with other contributors weighing in as well (typically this will include those who disagrees with her and someone who is more neutral but leaning one way or the other - that seems to be how they do it).

Don't worry, I understand, thanks for pointing my mistake out. I don't know why I thought she would be a journalist. In my defense the article in the OP does just seem to switch between calling her a commentator and a contributor, maybe I got confused. But I guess neither commentator or contributor are strictly the same as journalist so I have no excuse. Sorry.