It’s Fox’s Fault
October 18th, 2009 at 8:52 am by MicheleFrom a Newsweek article, The O’Garbage Factor, Fox News Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Un-American.
That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox’s model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn’t just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.
Don’t read the whole thing.
It seems Fox wasn’t created as a response to a long entrenched left-leaning media chronicled by newsmen like Bernard Goldberg. But like he says, liberal media types are unaware of their bias simply because they just assume they are right.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:59 am
I read this last night. The comments threads were hilarity. Just remember their cover, “Joe Biden Is No Joke”. I don’t even think Biden believes that.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Unfreakin believable. We used to be able to tell you the unvarnished truth until Fox came along and upset the status quo.
I actually remember during election night 1984, as a Reagan landslide was appearing before our eyes, the news commentators were saying that the American people ought to be voting for a Democratic congress to keep things moderate.
Newsweek can’t go down the tubes fast enough. If it weren’t for dentist offices, I think it would be there already.