Diane Sawyer And Bill O'Reilly Spar About Campaign Coverage (VIDEO)

Diane Sawyer appeared on Wednesday's "O'Reilly Factor" to talk about ABC's political coverage--and to assure Bill O'Reilly that it would be scrupulously fair and balanced during the 2012 campaign.

O'Reilly touted a study that said that the media's coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign was tilted in favor of Barack Obama.

"You, DIane Sawyer, are going to be held accountable for how your news operation treats both candidates," he said.

"We are really proud of our team and what we're going to do," she said, reeling off the names of some of the ABC News team as evidence for the division's professionalism.

"But they're all liberal people in real life," O'Reilly said. "You know that."

"I do not know that," Sawyer said. She stressed that ABC had covered the Tea Party extensively, and was thinking of devoting more resources to airing "both sides" of major issues. O'Reilly seemed skeptical, saying he was "concerned as an American" that the networks were not being fair.

"Look at what we do," Sawyer replied. "Look at what we do."

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Comments

[RRoadrunner]

02:41 PM on 06/06/2011

Was there anything positive to say about the way McCain & Palin ran their campaign?

[Tquin]

02:08 PM on 06/06/2011

Diane Sawyer thinks that the Communist Party USA is a right wing organization.

[Ladybuc99]

09:29 AM on 06/06/2011

Is this a joke? diane Sawyer defending herself and her network against O'Reilly? The same weekend they are announcing their second presidential debat that features ONLY republicans?

Wake up America!

[Albert Fowler]

11:20 PM on 06/05/2011

Bill- " I dont think its fair" Waaaaa

[NeoConsAreFinished]

11:06 PM on 06/05/2011

So the king of biased is lecturing others about being non biased. We really are on the Bizarro planet.

[Red45]

09:20 PM on 06/05/2011

Not biased? ABC doth protest too much.

[ruhaba]

04:58 PM on 06/05/2011

Where was Fox's ratio? who they did favor ? Republican 95% Democtates 5% ? get real man.

[vietveter]

10:00 PM on 06/05/2011

Faux isn’t biased, they are 100% regressive republican Tea; at that level it is called COMMITTED, bias can no longer contain it.

Is ABC biased even though no one watches their coverage?

[Boogerwolf]

10:23 PM on 06/05/2011

Fox assumed that their viewers find them 100% fair and balanced so they felt no need to include themselves.

[mrzekush]

01:09 PM on 06/05/2011

Wow...the FACTS he puts up ahead of that interview...truly amazing the liberal media. Need one small cable network to actually point that out to people as no other station will. hahahaha.

[fictioneer]

12:52 PM on 06/05/2011

Ugh. Don't fall for it, Diane.

[ywcachieve]

02:03 AM on 06/05/2011

Fox is the most biased network in the country. They are disgusting, for trying to pin that on other networks.

They are bullies, and bigots at Fox.

[Red45]

09:23 PM on 06/05/2011

True, Fox is the most biased but it isn't the only one seriously biased.

[eelo1]

02:36 PM on 06/06/2011

I guess that that's the reason they beat all other news networks in the ratings.Keep watching Msnbc and Cnn for you news you know the channels that combined have less viewers than the cartoon network.

[deathpanelist1]

07:20 PM on 06/04/2011

This is how far right Fox News has become, they question a former Nixon aide on how liberal her team is.

[ywcachieve]

02:12 AM on 06/05/2011

Fox wants all other networks to be as bigoted and bullying as they are. They don't like to hear good news reported about what President Obama has achieved. They want other networks to bash him like they do.

[Red45]

09:24 PM on 06/05/2011

you just got yer first fan.

[LightShadow62]

06:11 PM on 06/04/2011

For conservatives, anything information that doesn't match their concept of the world is automatically the product of "liberal bias". There is no interest in truth or reality just their increasingly narrow view of what they think the world should be. The Cult of Conservatism if you will, with the likes of Palin, Beck, Bachmann, Limbaugh as their high priests.

[chavezcoach]

04:30 PM on 06/04/2011

Wow, haven't tuned into anything with Diane Sawyer for years. When did get that old face?

[tuliehowller]

10:48 PM on 06/04/2011

Lots of bo to x

[goleafsgo]

06:02 PM on 06/04/2011

As far as I know there no longer is an Air America.

[CJCalgirl]

06:59 PM on 06/04/2011

Barancy, those documents were accurate, as evidence later proved, and your lack of awareness says more about you than any topic you 'discuss'.

[Barancy Peloma]

08:10 PM on 06/04/2011

no they were not. where is this evidence as you claim?
i tell you what- i will go ahead and show you a link to evidence that proves you are the one who lacks 'awareness'
everything in this link is 100% accurate (even though i know you won't like it)

http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/a-lost-fact-in-the-rathergate-mess-part-1/

[clearasmud]

01:51 PM on 06/04/2011

Sawyer let O'Rielly get away with quoting comparisons without showing Fox's results? That was pitiful. She got walked on. I would have expected Sawyer to at least hold her on. She got bad used.

But, it's just another example of the duplicity and hypocracy that is Fox Spews.

http://www.cmpa.com/media_room_4_27_09.htm