Fox News: got memo?
Keith Olberman and Robert Greenwald discuss a memo written by John Moody, FOX News Channel senior vice president of news/editorial, and subsequently leaked to Huffington Post.
The memo was written the day after the recent election, and was intended to focus the "reporting" of the day. The pro-Republican/anti-Democratic slant is, needless to say, clear, as is the use of events to reinforce pre-conceived ideas. My personal favorite:
Journalism may or may not be dead altogether-- al Jazeera, anyone? But there ain't no pulse at Fox. As Robert Greenwald points out, "Dan Rather was fired for not fact checking." But at Fox you would get fired for sticking to the facts, it seems. There is no surprise here, but it's nice to have hard, internal data.
The memo was written the day after the recent election, and was intended to focus the "reporting" of the day. The pro-Republican/anti-Democratic slant is, needless to say, clear, as is the use of events to reinforce pre-conceived ideas. My personal favorite:
We’ll continue to work the Hamas threat to the U.S. that came hours after the election results. Just because Dems won, the war on terror isn’t over.
Journalism may or may not be dead altogether-- al Jazeera, anyone? But there ain't no pulse at Fox. As Robert Greenwald points out, "Dan Rather was fired for not fact checking." But at Fox you would get fired for sticking to the facts, it seems. There is no surprise here, but it's nice to have hard, internal data.
posted by ChiTom | 2:17 PM
1 Comments:
Who's that man behind the curtain pulling the levers at Faux News?
Ah, Toto pulled the curtain back.
It's Karl!
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