David Asman

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David Asman is an American television news anchor for the Fox News Channel.

Joining Fox News in 1997, Asman presently hosts Forbes on Fox and other numerous Fox News Specials. He previously was a host of Fox News Live weekdays, but relinquished that title in August 2005 to head up FNC's documentary unit.

Asman began his career at the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, where he covered Latin America for 12 years, before becoming editorial features editor. While in Latin America (during the volatile period of the 1980s), he wrote over 100 articles and won several awards from the InterAmerican Press Association for his writings on Cuba and Mexico, as well as for his editing of a weekly column on Latin America. During this period, Asman also edited a column on business management for the Journal called "Manager's Journal." Two collections of these columns were published, the last of which, "The Wall Street Journal On Management: Adding Value Through Synergy," was published by Doubleday. Asman was appointed editorial features editor at a time when the Journal's editorial page was breaking stories on "Whitewater." Asman left the Wall Street Journal to join Fox News in 1997, one year after the news channel's inception.

Liberal critics of Fox News Channel claim that Asman's reporting shows a distinctly right-wing bias. Examples include instances in which he asks questions in a context that seems to identify himself as a supporter of conservative proposals or politicians. A notable example is the heated interview Asman gave with Republican Senator Trent Lott after the gang of 14 bypassed the senate and ended a possible confrontation on the nominations of several justices to the federal courts. Referring to the possible use of the nuclear option, which conservatives had been pushing strongly for at the time, Asman asked "So, Senator, if we should have done it and if we had the votes to do it in the Senate -if you guys in the Republican Party did - then why did you need a compromise?". Critics also take issue with the fact that Asman if a former official from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative, free market advocacy group with ties to New York's former Republican mayor, Rudolph Guiliani.^[1]

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^ Fox Freudian slip: Asman asked Lott why a compromise was needed when "we" had the votes for the nuclear option. Retrieved on 2006-08-26.

Asman continues to write articles for the Wall Street Journal and other publications, including an article about his Marine stepson (here's the link http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002848), and an article about his wife's stroke and their experiences with British Health Care (here's the link http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006785).