Originally Posted by
satchip
As opposed to the politics free NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, New Republic, Time, Newsweek, USN&WR, etc etc etc? Need I go on?

That was not the implication, but rather the article implied that somehow the politics that occured in naming the NMB numbers was a surprise...nope just polictics as normal. You left out the FOX network.