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TV Critic:Kidnapping Not Covered Because Fox News "Set Itself Apart" (they die who cares)
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Posted on 08/22/2006 3:38:17 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Bob Laurence, TV critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune, sent a letter to Romenesko setting forth a couple of reasons for the scant coverage given to the kidnapping in Gaza of two Fox News journalists (via Michelle):
... Fox has deliberately set itself apart from other news media. Starting at the top with Roger Ailes, the Fox sales pitch has been to deride other media, to declare itself the one source of the real truth, the sole source of 'fair and accurate' news reporting. As a result, there's not a reservoir of kinship or good will with Fox on the part of the rest of the news media. You can't keep insulting people and then expect friendship when you need it.
You stay classy, San Diego.
That's about as low down as we would expect the media to go. Sad to know that they lived up to it in this case.