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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