Newsnets Race To the Bottom: Today's advantage: Fox

For more than an hour CNN has been reporting a story, apparently confirmed by Fox's Jerusalem bureau, that two Fox employees have been kidnapped in Gaza. The story gets 36 entries on Google News.

So far, unless I've missed some brief mention, the Fox New Channel itself has made nary a peep about this story, while bloviating at full speed about Lebanon and the terror threat to a bridge in Michigan. Painful as it is to report on yourself, it's really bad form to let your competitor scoop you like that.

My ongoing coverage of which cable news channel is actually the worst is desultory, decontextualized, and confused—just like the cable news channels themselves. But I'd say Fox just surged ahead.