Posted on 03/07/2019 11:48:09 AM PST by SkyPilot
By Margaret Sullivan
Media columnist
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about the overall problem of Fox News, which started out with bad intentions in 1996 and has swiftly devolved into what often amounts to a propaganda network for a dishonest president and his allies.
The network, which attracts more viewers than its two major competitors, specializes in fearmongering and unrelenting alarmism. Remember “the caravan”?
At crucial times, it does not observe basic standards of journalistic practice: as with its eventually retracted, false reporting in 2017 on Seth Rich, which fueled conspiracy theories that Hillary Clinton had the former Democratic National Committee staffer killed because he was a source of campaign leaks.
Fox, you might recall, was a welcoming haven for “birtherism” — the racist lies about President Barack Obama’s birthplace. For years, it has constantly, unfairly and inaccurately bashed Hillary Clinton.
And its most high-profile personality, Sean Hannity, is not only a close confidant of President Trump but appeared with him onstage at a campaign rally last year.
Anyone who was paying the slightest bit of attention knew all of this long before Jane Mayer’s 11,000-word investigation in the New Yorker magazine was published a few days ago.
But because Mayer is so highly respected, and the piece so thorough, it made an impact. Within days, DNC Chairman Tom Perez announced that Fox wouldn’t be chosen as one of the hosts of the Democratic primary debates.
This was a mild, reasonable step that recognizes the reality that Fox News shouldn’t be treated as an honest broker of political news.
Post # 1 is the excerpt for the Washington Post article (if you want to call it that).
Unlike, say, CNN or MSNBC.
It really, really kills them that there is ONE major media outlet not quite under their control.
This, from a so-called ‘journalist’ at a 1st Amendment protected organization.
Change the word ‘Fox’ to ‘CNN’ or ‘MSNBC’ and see what they say...............
Is this piece satire?
Project much Margaret?
Fox News is “destructive,” but the fakenews Washington Post is a revered media watchdog.
Yeah.
no, but it probably came from Drudge
No bias there, right, Margie girl?....................
Washington Post gives Hillary Clinton four Pinocchios for saying “… in Wisconsin, where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40 and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin…”
Getting rid of Shemp would go a long way to fix the problem.
I consider Fox to be minimally reliable as news. The others, the “alphabets”, are simply propaganda arms of the DNC.
We’ve always complained that the news was “biased” toward DNC, but that was always false. The news “is” the DNC. We should never expect to get a fair shake from our enemies, or even legitimate information. It will always be disinformation, and it will always be hostile.
How about the destructive misinformation of HuffPo?
I think she needs to lay off the Oreos...
Says Maggie, the neutral honest reporter from the Bezos Post.
There is an old nickname for the WP: Pravda on the Potomac. It still applies.
WP says Fox not Pravda.
Outraged over any non-Pravda media.
It must be trash Fox News day. Here’s another one by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house
REplace “fox” with “CNN”.
The difference between the left and the rest of us is that we don’t believe in simply telling the other side to shut up. We choose to expose their lunacy by LETTING them talk.
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