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Fox News Isn't Biased. They Swear They Aren't

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Fox News has fired a 24-year-old production assistant for revealing her political preferences during a red carpet event. Jennifer Locke was assisting a Fox camera crew at the Time 100 Gala, when Republican presidential candidate John McCain walked by. Locke apparently said to McCain, "I voted for you in the primary. You're going to win."

Interestingly enough, McCain turned back and said to Locke, "You're not supposed to reveal that."

The entire encounter was captured on tape, and later a Fox News "insider" said Locke's comments to McCain were "journalistically unacceptable." Even after working with Fox for a few years, Locke was immediately terminated due to what happened at the red carpet shindig.

It's understandable that journalists are not allowed to disclose their political views in public, because they want to avoid any accusation of biased media coverage. But was this Fox's attempt to recover from rumors regarding their right-wing bias in news coverage? Because if that's the case, It didn't work.

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