Fox Makes Up News, NY Times Editor Says

Newsmax.com ^ | June 23, 2006 | Carl Limbaugh

[Paul Ross]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Friday, June 23, 2006 12:32 a.m. EDT

Fox Makes Up News, NY Times Editor Says

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.

[thoughtomator]

Methinks the Old Gray Lady doth protest too much. Out, damned spot!

[Bryan24]

Jason Blair?????????

[Arm_Bears]

"Raines – who, ironically, resigned over made-up stories at the Times"

That about says it all.

[frogjerk]

Projection anyone?

[AntiGovernment]

Only Fox's commentary is heavily conservative, the reporting is usually fair and balanced.

[JHBowden]

The NYT is totally living in a glass house on this issue.

[The G Man]

So says the man who gave us Jason Blair ...

[TaxRelief]

I don't suppose he gave any specific examples?

[wideawake]

"And on page 273 of his book, OJ Simpson claims that Nicole and Ron Goldman actually killed him." - Norm MacDonald

[RandallFlagg]

He said so...

[Williams]

Wow, what hatred from an obvious partisan hack.

[Red Badger]

"Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for ‘fair’ news,...

I guess HIS definition of Fair and Balanced is a scale that has no right side tray?..........

[Americanwolf]

Methinks Howell Raines has done gone pickled his brain again....

[ExDemSince92]

Hmmmmmm.

Not projecting are we , Howard?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

In his new autobiography "The One That Got Away,”

I can't wait to see whether the NYT places the book in the "Fiction" or "Non Fiction" category.

[Red Badger]

Projection to THE MAX!.......

[DBrow]

He just cannot live with the fact that Fox sometimes provides a view different from the current DNC chant.

It was Hillary, I think who said a few years ago that they could not get their ideas out because of Fox and talk radio.

She (and Raines) really mean that they don't like the idea that now, someone can present an alternative or even refute the Marxist line.

[Mo1]

Gee ... and the ratings for the NYT's compare to FNC are ???

[CholeraJoe]

Right. Like Juliet Huddy and Rudy Bakhtiar have the sense to make up news.