<P> Scott Norvell, the London bureau chief for Fox News, stated in a May 20, 2005 interview with the Wall Street Journal that: </P> <P> "Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly . And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that they aren't subsidizing Bill's bombast; we payers of the BBC license fee don't enjoy that peace of mind . Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories . That's our appeal . People watch us because they know what they are getting . The Beeb's (British Broadcasting Corporation) (BBC) institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it ". </P> <P> Another technique used to avoid bias is disclosure of affiliations that may be considered a possible conflict of interest . This is especially apparent when a news organization is reporting a story with some relevancy to the news organization itself or to its ownership individuals or conglomerate . Often this disclosure is mandated by the laws or regulations pertaining to stocks and securities . Commentators on news stories involving stocks are often required to disclose any ownership interest in those corporations or in its competitors . </P> <P> In rare cases, a news organization may dismiss or reassign staff members who appear biased . This approach was used in the Killian documents affair and after Peter Arnett's interview with the Iraqi press . This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard . </P>

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