NY Times’ Bill Keller: FOX News Has Abandoned Being Fair & Balanced

"I think they "” they didn't invent the idea of partisan news," former executive editor of the New York Times Bill Keller said on CNN's "Reliable Sources" this morning. "I mean, there's a long history of that in our country. But they perfected "” they refined it and perfected it and brought to it a degree of cynicism, this sort of "˜we are the fair and balanced network,' when they are the opposite of the fair and balanced network. They're "” if they came out and said we're the right-wing network, we're going to favor Republicans and we're going to present talking heads who are ideologically to the right or the far right, that's fine. That "” it's a free country. But what I object to is that they've abandoned the discipline, the journalistic discipline of trying to be fair." (via Jeff Poor/Daily Caller)