“Hotel Journalists” Vs. Talk Show Hosts

Melanie Morgan, a talk radio host for KSFO Radio in San Francisco, is tired of Iraq’s “hotel journalists” from “the mainstream media” who “sit around in a hotel bar” cribbing other writers’ quotes and clips “so they don’t have to go out and cover the war.” So she’s heading to Iraq with other conservative hosts for the “Truth Tour.” “We are not going to engage in hotel journalism,” she proclaims. No, you’re going to engage in something worse: Something that appears to be journalism, but isn’t at all. FOXNews.com has a fair and balanced story…

> Update: 11:40am: “Were you being sarcastic with that line” about fair and balanced?, Jeff asks. “I read the story and thought it WAS pretty fair and balanced.” I wasn’t being sarcastic — I thought it was quite objective!