From Columbia Journalism Review

It wasn’t just the so-called liberal media that appeared enthralled with Barack Obama last night. Even Fox News Channel managed to give him a leg up—whether it was intentional or not.

During its coverage of the Potomac primaries, FNC carried the Illinois senator’s victory speech live from Madison, Wisconsin, for a full twenty minutes. Earlier in the night, FNC devoted a mere two minutes to Hillary Clinton’s speech from El Paso, Texas.

As for the Republican hopefuls, John McCain enjoyed ten minutes of Fox’s airtime compared to Mike Huckabee’s five (although Huckabee got his by appearing as a guest via satellite feed)

You can see what’s happening here ( a shout out to Bilious O’Reilly - get your resume ready.) Murdoch/Fox sees the writing on the wall, the next president is going to be a Democrat and is almost certain at this point to be Barack Obama so the tune needs to change (albeit very slowly so as to not alienate the vapid trailer trash morons who constitute the audience at this point too quickly) or else Fox will be left out in the cold and not have any influence with the new regime. At some point before Obama is crowned they will come out in favor of him and point to that and say something to the effect see we are as fair and balanced as we say we are. Prepare to chuck your cookies at that point.

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