A myth in the unmaking

Fox News's status as a politically impartial channel is at last being exposed as a fiction

Two executives of a major news organisation may have told a citizen to lie to federal investigators to protect a presidential candidate. It's a stunning charge. If proven someday, Fox will no longer be able to hide behind the fiction that it's a neutral news outfit. Full Story »

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Peter Henry
4.2
by Peter Henry - Oct. 1, 2008

An opinion piece - the author, a self-identified liberal columnist - is up front about his own point of view, and he bashes Fox News as blatantly partisan while pretending to be "fair and balanced." Ho hum. The shocker, however, is real news - a high-level employee of Fox News, Judith Regan, asserts that she was pressured by her superiors at Fox to commit perjury to federal officials investigating her boyfriend, Bernard Kerick, who is joined at the hip with Rudy Giuliani. That's why I am recommending this piece.

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Mike LaBonte
3.9
by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 1, 2008

Like many opinion pieces, weak on sources. But the facts match what I have seen. Could use more caution regarding Judith Regan testimony. Fails to name "a now deceased investigator". I like the writing.

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Al Espenschied
2.3
by Al Espenschied - Oct. 1, 2008

this is an opinion piece. It does have the news about judith regan however and its short.

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Chris Finnie
3.6
by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

While I don't hold an opinion piece piece to the fairness standards of regular journalism, I was tickled by the comment that he makes no pretense to being non-partisan. I do, however, think his characterization of Faux Noise is spot on. The only thing he got wrong, in my experience, is that American viewers are on to the fact that Faux is not news. Several elderly people I know who watch it pretty constantly, believe everything they say. Pollsters report that regular Faux viewers have beliefs about Iraq, Al-Quida, and other important issues of the day that are directly opposite of known facts. This is because they actually DO believe what they hear on TV. Scary, but true. Watching Faux Noise will rot your brain.

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Kaizar Campwala
4.0
by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
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Matthew Spielman
1.0
by Matthew Spielman - Oct. 1, 2008

Liberal crap. complaining about how Fox News is unfair to Dumbycrats. the same people who plant questions by their own operatives in their debates on the CNN (Changing News Network). If Fox News is a "mouth piece for the Republican Party", CNN is the equivalent for the Democrat Party. Anything written by the Guardian is not news.. but at best a hatchet job on Republicans and their supports or a puff piece on the Dems.

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