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Baltimore Sun TV critic (and regular Fox News detractor) David Zurawik said Thursday.
"What it's really about to me is the Executive Branch of the government trying to tell the press how it should behave. I mean, this democracy -- we know this -- only works with a free and unfettered press to provide information," he said.
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I heard about this yesterday. But this is the first story I've read about it. Though I believe it fairly represents what happened, it leaves out a lot of context. For example, the Bush administration did this routinely with reporters who published things they didn't like. This is nothing new. Fox just isn't used to it.
The story tells of journalists persisting in a myth, and refusing to recognized a bought and paid for propaganda arm as not longer being responsible media.
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