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Condé Nast Portfolio: Fox's Wallace Jumps the Gun on Bias Charge (11/2/07) by Jeff Bercovici
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace's on-air claim that the story of "34" October U.S. military deaths in Iraq "is untold. I haven't heard it anyplace except Fox News.... You don't see it in the New York Times. You don't see it in the Washington Post" has Bercovici noting that "if only... Wallace could see headlines as well as he spots liberal media bias, he might not feel so aggrieved."Citing the release of the official monthly death toll—39*, not Wallace's 34—both papers noted that it was the lowest such casualty figure since March 2006. Wallace could be forgiven for missing the Times's story, which was "buried" on page A12, but not the Post's front-pager, headlined, "In Iraq, a Lull or a Hopeful Trend?" According to Nexis, the falling-death-toll story got play in a slew of other newspapers as well as on CBS News, NPR and, yes, CNN. In other words, the only way Wallace could have not heard it "anyplace except Fox News" is if he gets all his news from his own network.
*Actually, the final toll was 38 U.S. troop deaths for October.
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