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FIRST ON FOX -- Americans who rely on evening newscasts from ABC, CBS or NBC for information are likely unaware that elected officials going after former President Trump are Democrats, according to a new study from the Media Research Center. "The network coverage of the Trump prosecutions routinely and fraudulently implies that they are nonpartisan public officials. It’s Trump versus the New York Attorney General, or the Manhattan District Attorney. They’re not just Democrats, they’re elected Democrats, building a career on taking down Trump. Leaving that out of the story is irresponsible," NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham told Fox News...

Study: Midwest newscasts devote elections little time Local TV news directors apparently don't think their viewers are very interested in coverage of the upcoming elections, at least in the Midwest. A University of Wisconsin NewsLab study released yesterday showed that local stations in nine major markets in the Midwest, including Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, showed an average of 36 seconds of election news in their 30-minute evening news broadcasts for a month starting Sept. 7. Not unexpectedly, advertising took up most of the 30-minute newscasts, at an average 10 minutes and seven seconds. Next was sports and weather...

For months there had been a quiet buzz in both political and publishing circles surrounding "The Book" being written about Sen. Hillary Clinton. The scuttlebutt had it that New York Times best-selling author Edward Klein was in the final stages of a blockbuster expose of the former first lady, the likes of which could derail her 2008 presidential aspirations. "The Truth About Hillary" is now out, and it has lived up to its billing in the fireworks department. Except the controversy surrounds not Hillary Clinton but author Ed Klein, and the broadsides against him are coming primarily from conservatives, not...