Fox News (Officially) Abandons Journalism in the Middle East

Huffington Post by Eric Boehlert | Jul. 26, 2006 (Opinion)

"We're covering the story from every angle!" enthused a Fox News anchor Friday, as Rupert Murdoch's all-news channel, like CNN and MSNBC, went wall-to-wall covering the latest round of violence in the Middle East. Despite that hype, Fox News has pointedly refused to cover every angle of the bloody, on-going story and in the process has walked away from professional journalism and crossed over into dutiful propaganda; a dangerous new chapter even for Fox News. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by David Fox - Jul 27, 2006 - 12:43 PM PDT
Reviewed by: David Fox (review), Ezra Fox (review), Margaret Yonco-Haines (review), Chris Fee (review), Shawn Peirce (review)
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Ezra Fox
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 by Ezra Fox - Oct. 1, 2008

This story absolutely blasts Fox News for being so manipulative and one-sided in its coverage of the Lebanon-Israel conflict. The piece cites the disproportionately small number of arab experts to everyone else and quotes one of the shows demonstrate how unbalanced the coverage really is... even for Fox.

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Margaret Yonco-Haines
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 by Margaret Yonco-Haines - Oct. 1, 2008
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David Fox
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 by David Fox - Oct. 1, 2008
David posted this story.
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Shawn Peirce
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 by Shawn Peirce - Oct. 19, 2009

That Faux is still allowed to even use the word "news" to describe themselves is a disgrace to journalistic integrity. Unfortunately, Huffington Post is just stating the obvious here.

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 by Chris Fee - Oct. 1, 2008
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