Posted on 06/23/2006 12:24:46 PM PDT by Paul Ross
Fox Makes Up News, NY Times Editor SaysReprinted from NewsMax.com
Friday, June 23, 2006 12:32 a.m. EDT
Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines has leveled a shocking charge against Fox News: The leading cable news network makes up its stories.
In his new autobiography "The One That Got Away,” Raines – who, ironically, resigned over made-up stories at the Times – writes:
"Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for ‘fair’ news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest of America’s periodic religious manias. The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its ‘news’ is made up.
"It matters not when critics point this out to Foxite consumers because they’ve understood it from the outset. That’s why they’re there.”
Further on in the book he attacks Fox again:
"Fox Television showed us the future - outright lies and paranoid opinions packaged as news under the oversight of Rupert [Murdoch], a flagrant pirate, and Roger Ailes, an unprincipled Nixon thug.”
After the conservative Web site Newsbusters ran several excerpts from Raines’ book, one e-mailer wrote:
"Fox may have a conservative slant but it is usually quite clear when they go from straight reporter mode to giving their own two bits worth.”
Another e-mail says: "I guess if there’s anyone who should recognize ‘made-up’ news when he sees it, it would be Howell Raines.”
Raines was executive editor at the Times when the Jayson Blair scandal erupted in 2003. Blair, it was revealed, had fabricated stories, inventing quotes and even entire interviews. Raines resigned about a month later, after less than two years at the job.
There is nothing which illustrates the liberal worldview's entry into the realm of psychosis than this assertion by one of their ideological stalwarts.
I hope the New York Times editors have nice houses in the suburbs, or better yet the exurbs, after compromising our security this morning in a very big way.
The New York Times is a treasonous newspaper.Why would anyone pay a subscription to be lied to?That piece of toilet paper is nothing but a mouthpiece for the democrap party and other unamerican organizations.
LOL! look who's talking!
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He also gives fly fishermen a bad name.
This will surely be part of the Political Grapevine tonight with Brit Hume!!
This will surely be part of the Political Grapevine tonight with Brit Hume!!
Old Howell uses the Karl Marx maxim of "accuse others of what you do" Typical lib
I think it's fun to watch the NY slimes and the Boston Globe retractor and fishwrap, both go down the drain !
Raines is a piece of work. He reeks of hatred toward conservatives.
There, I fixed it.
Sour grapes. As usual, the Socialist accuse their opponents of the very thing that they committ!
Actually, I believe a journalism school at a liberal university demonstrated that ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN were quite far left, Fox News was a bit to the right (no where near as far right as the others were to the left), and the most centrist was PBS (they were just a tad to the left, I believe).
Did Jason Blair get hired by Fox? I had not heard about this.?
Where'd you hear that?
It was implied by this article.
Yep
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