"Fair and Balanced" Defined
  • Fox News ran the speeches of Martha Coakley and Scott Brown, each in its entirety. CNN and MSNBC? Not so much.

    When Martha Coakley (D) took the podium to concede the election, all three channels aired most or all of the eight-minute speech.

    However, Republican Scott Brown's address was cut short on CNN after just seven minutes. On MSNBC Keith Olbermann cut Brown's mic and instead attacked the Republican candidate, talked about "teabaggers", and ran commercials. CNN only ran 26% of Brown's speech, while MSNBC aired 37%.