Fox News and Facing Reality: Fair AND Balanced! Part 2
By william harrison, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 10:03:46 AM EST
Tags: abortion, FOX news
Tonight at 9:00 pm eastern time, Fox News will break new ground: a documentary on a controversial and complex subject that from all reviews actually seems FAIR AND BALANCED!
FAIR AND BALANCED!!! What a concept! And on Fox News no less.
When I agreed to participate with producer Rachel Feldman (who is responsible for this story and the accolades it is receiving from all critics who have so far reviewed the film) most of the people who think they know me best thought that I had finally lost my last marble. The one that had been attached with chewing gum and a little rusting bailing wire. "Don't do it!" they told me. "It will be a disaster."
To comment on your thoughts about the documentery, to the producer and to Fox, go to FNCSPECIALS@FOXNEWS.COM
Since coming to my town to film portions of the documentery, Facing Reality: Choice, Ms. Feldman has kept in touch with both me and my office manager to let us know what was going on and to reassure that her project was going ahead and would not be the hatchet job so many of my friends and abortion care providers were convinced it would be.
When Rachel was in town, I took her to lunch one day with a group of long time friends, many retired now. This group, that I have labeled "The Curmudgeons" consists of a teacher of constitutional law, two journalists; a novelist and screen writer; three retired history professors; one retired farmer and english teacher; a retired former Marine, Continental Airlines and FedX pilot; and me, "the local abortionist" and whatever exotic creatures I feel compelled to inflict the curmudgeons on on any particular day. Sometimes it is a medical student I have working with me, sometimes a reporter, and sometimes a Fox News publisher. My friends, like my town, are extremely protective of me. And the day I brought the Foxie news lady, Ms. Feldman, to lunch with the curmudgeons was no exception.
Rachel and I have been exchanging emails since she told me Facing Reality: Choice was to air tonight and Sunday afternoon. Yesterday I sent her my last Daily Kos Diary. This was her reply:
Thanks for letting me know about this
..here are some other links below to read about the special
Also can you give the people another email address instead of my
personal one..Mine can only handle a certain amount of mail and I don't
want to lose any..so please send post our show email that can hold a lot
it is:
FNCSPECIALS@FOXNEWS.COM
Below are the links to other reviews of the show
Variety Magazine
Portfolio.com
Cross-posted at DailyKos.