Internal memo from Fox News... Such an objective news organization... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/14/fox-news-internal-memo-_n_34128.html
Notice the "editorial" header on the page? That means it's from that department, and it is therefore filled with opinions. Newsflash.
You mean Fox recognizes the difference between reporting and editorializing? You might be the only person who noticed that heading.
Really, is it that difficult... Let's look at the positions (as described by Fox themselves) held by those mentioned in the memo... Jennifer Griffin - Correspondent based in Israel Jim Angle - Senior White House correspondent Major Garrett - D.C. political correspondent Mike Tobin - Correspondent based in Israel And the "Moody" that wrote the memo... John Moody serves as the Senior Vice President, News Editorial for FOX News. He is responsible for both the design and editorial direction of FOX News Channel and oversees all story content for FOX News.
This is so silly. All memos from non-editorial departments than feature no opinions? Or: Are you implying that "let's be on the lookout for any statements from..." is just an opinion and not a direction and/or plan? Please note that nowhere are statements such as these begun with "We, at the editorial department suggest" or "It is the opinion of the editorial board that"... Do you sleep better at night ignoring reality?
If it's editorial, then how come the ideas laid out in that memo clearly made their way to the NEWS desk that same day? http://www.newshounds.us/2006/11/15/live_desk_follows_script_of_fox_news_memo.php <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DSOiYD6MVsA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DSOiYD6MVsA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
While FNC is more 'blatant' in its bias than the competition, they're hardly the only news organization out there that's biased.
I agree that pretty much all media has a bias. IT just usually isn't conservative or liberal so much. Also most media would not decide what they want the news to look like, and then find facts to fit their idea of what it should like. That is exactly what this memo is suggesting. The idea of journalism is that you find facts first and then determine the story. Fox determined the story, and then looks for any facts it can to match. That isn't journalism.
That anyone actually believes what they see on Fox News makes me smile. It's so quaint. Anyone who believes in a liberal media that is owned by giant, multi-billion-dollar international corporations with ownership of significant chunks of the Republican-dominated military industrial complex is deluding themselves. The media is owned -- or at best dominated by -- conservative politics. Why would a massive corporation hamstring itself for objectivity that nobody would believe anyway? Reporters are generally left-leaning, this is true. But their bosses are decidedly not.
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