I'm pretty sure it wasn't Couric but rather Gibson. The interview was chopped to hell and back, it was not small edits. They sent Johny Depp to work on it full speed (ref: Tim Burton Flicks from 1990)

I actually agree that no news outlet should chop this stuff up but there were a ton of folks then who thought that position was unreasonable and told me as much. Lets see if they stick to that position in this instance as I still stick to mine.

I will however say it is a bit different to chop an interview given somewhere else versus an actual interview you're doing. I think for a standard interview you've asked this person on and you should give them the time to make their full answer available to the public..for congressional testimony or hearings etc...it's pretty lame to chop their statement up still but at least you're not asking them to come give a statement and then screwing them over.

PS - If this was from Gore's most recent congressional deal then it's an interesting side note that Lord Monckton was invited to debate Gore at this thing but after he had flown over from England and landed in the US they canceled on the guy. So in that respect I would say they are getting it right to paint Gore like a d-bag in this instance. If you're gonna cancel do it before the guy takes the ~12 hour flight.

I completely disagree.  I think FNC is a very positive thing in journalism for America right now.  With the rest of the media playing from the spectrum of left to center Fox is the only truly right of center cable news outfit.  You have to have the opposing view which is why I think MSNBC, despite my hatred for Olbermann as a human being (I'll be blunt, I really do loath his existance), is still serving a purpose.  MSNBC and FNC are unapologitically slanted, they both make the same coy "we're fair" claims and propaganda but thats only because it is a business and you can't come right out and say "We're just slinging it from the left/right, hope you're cool with that." and still have the kind of success they have or in MSNBC's case would like to have.

But everybody else in news is either left, center left, or center. Without FNC you have a failure of journalism to truly provide the full spectrum of viewpoints and it would do a huge disservice to the country.  I watch a mixture of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, FNC, etc.. (<3 Tivo) and the conservative view on those non-FNC channels is generally the same soft poorly spoken token views that FNC gets from Allen Colmes only he is giving the "token lefty" view instead.  I think often times the hosts/producers of the individual shows choose their guests and opt for those token views to be propped up as straw men for their easy destruction to drive ratings.

The negatives of the slant are far outweighed by the positives of at least having the view available. We need the media to keep the politicians honest and that doesn't happen when the entireity of the media wants to have sex with the most powerful politician in the country...and I think Obama has the super power to turn straight reporters Gay and make married reporters leave their spouse.  No, kidding aside, I think the news has seriously been on vacation for the last few months and while I do not think they need to lay into Obama they need to start asking tough direct questions to both Gibbs and Obama. 

PS - I'm sure we'll just have to agree to disagree on most of this, but I'm putting it out there.

Good that you see that Fox news does this. Sad that you don't see that every other news station in the US does it equally.

Media is evil.

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I hate FOX news......

I do agree that allowing editors to cut this stuff up is ripe for abuse and I think it should be avoided whenever possible (used responsibly it can be a legit technique, but I don't trust the media to use it responsibly).  With that said I don't think these are particularly nefarious instances of editing, in fact these are pretty benign to me.  I think there are a ton of far worse examples out there on the part of FNC as well as every other news outlett.

I just use the BBC for my news. They're pretty much obsessed with trying to be neutral.

Understandably there are gray areas in war......

All news is biased, just FOX news is a little more bias than most...

Yeah they are biased against Michael Savage... Not a word about his being banned from the UK, while other cable news channels covered it and even interviewed him.