the launching of an all news cable channel and design to operate 24 7 call for plenty of current opinion or interview programing to go along with the hourly or half hourly news report . confuse . let u try to reason together and examine this issue closer . when be it news reporting and when do we have news and commentery . in order to examine these question and let u now first return to those eearly day of yesteryear and when . yeah and the year be 1964. little 18 year old punk jack ryan have just be release from high school . it be st. rita high school here on chicago southside that certify this kid with a real diploma . what to do next . never have give any thought to future plan and never or high education . so and naturally and it be to the city college of chicago and woodrow wilson branch and that i matriculate . so now and education with member of the opposite sex . and there be no rule make attendance compulsory . it be at this time that a true education be come my way . we have always be tell that this be america and we have a god give right to speak and write and believe and vote and worship in whatever way we choose and as long a we do no harm to our neighbor in the process . well and i forget that this be heavily democratic chicago and cook county . the liberal be out in force and pledging to help the down trodden minority and bring them freedom and equality . ( notice the patronizing and elitist down talk . it the tone they use and feel today and even . ) well and one october day that election year and we have some substitute for our instructor in english 101. our regular guy and mr. m be out and so this lady teacher bring in some kind of half fast mimeographed quiz paper for u to take a a study aid . the quiz contain a series of sentence that have some grammatical error or do not . the student would select his or hers own proper choice . ( mind you and this b be be use in a college level class . ) the thing that remind me most of our discussion of hannity and colmes be one of the asinine sentence . it read just about lika thisa represent the tribune editorial be bias . ( all the quiz sentence be relevant to the 64 presidential election campaign . ) we be indeed in this people republic of chicago and i have be teach that you do not voice opinion contrary to the ( cook county democrat ) party line . but this silly and obviously politically charge slur on the chicago tribune traditional republican endorsement . but year later it dawn on me and ( duh . ) all editorial be bias . by their very natured and they all ready have a certain point of view on whatever subject . this be separate from the news reporting and which involve the who and what and how and where and when of any incident be report . it when somebody put the why into the story that we have our news editorialize and hence slant and spin or otherwise prostitute for one political agenda . fox news channel boast the slogan and we report and you decide . as far a we can tell and they do stick to the spirit and letter of their platitude . they do keep the news separate from the analysis or commentery programming . the two be like the news and the op ed page in a daily paper . hannity and colmes provide a sterling example of a news or current event commentery program can and do work . sean hannity be the resident conservative and alan colmes be the house liberal . their time in question a guest be meticulously divide between the two . they constantly rib each other and each others candidate . but they remain civil to all . time be when our elect official in government at all level leave the disagreement on the floor of their respective office or legislative chamber . outside the business of the hallowed hall and men from both party and from the left or the right and all socialize together . john f. kennedy and barry goldwater be very close personally as well a on the party scene . tip oneill and ronald reagan often do some elbow bending at a certain alexandria irish pub . with the old line big 3 network news department now have show to be less than honest and the whole nation have turn to what have come to be call alternate news source . with the internet and the blogosphere and outlet like fox news and with the like of hannity and colmes and have step in to fill the void leave vacate by the former all powerful . it can all be sum up with the old and oft quote proverb represent i may not agree with what you say and but i will fight to my death to defend your right to say it .