Why Fox News Is Un-American

Newsweek by Jacob Weisberg | Oct. 18, 2009 (Opinion)

That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has ... Full Story »

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by alan segal - Oct. 21, 2009

Definately high quality journalism. Any time a well respected member of the mainstream media takes on Republican propaganda pimps such as Murdoch and Ailes and exposes their partisan poisoning of news reporting it is a welcome defense of the once respected profession of journalism. Fox News has gotten away with a amazing con job on it's viewers. It's brainwashed these uninformed Republican voters that un-American hopes for failure of the government and demonizing attacks on the democratically elected President are somehow in their Republican self-interest and a higher form of patriotism.