Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/obama-video-on-fox-news-criticized-as-attack-ad/" target="_blank">http://mediadecoder.blogs.nyti...tack-ad/</a> This is Fox & Friends "look back" at the Obama Presidency. I guess they're not even pretending anymore. I mean, at least in the past we'd all wink when we said "Fox News," knowing that the news part was a sham.
Originally Posted By mawnck David Zurawik, media critic for The Baltimore Sun: >>But as the guy who challenged the Obama administration two years when it tried to deny Fox News access to interviews and other opportunities offered to the media on the grounds that Fox was not a legitimate news operation, I have to tell you even I am shocked by how blatantly Fox is throwing off any pretense of being a journalistic entity with videos like this. Don't be fooled by Bret Baier's Boy Scout smile or all the talk about how some shows are news and some are opinion on the channel. Any news organization that puts up this kind of video is rotten to the core.<< <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-romney-fox-news-obama-attack-ad-20120530,0,2738139.story" target="_blank">http://www.baltimoresun.com/en...39.story</a>
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< all the talk about how some shows are news and some are opinion on the channel. >>> This is certainly true, but other channels don't hold a candle to Fox News in how they blur the line between the two. For example, watch the handoff between the Fox Evening News and O'Reilly next time. It's designed to look like it's simply the handoff between one news anchor to another, such as at a shift change. In fact, O'Reilly introduces himself by saying "Bill R'Reilly, reporting." Reporting? Really? Is that what he does on his show? It's segued into as if it was a newscast. It's introduced as if it was a newscast. This is unlike anything that happens in the "mainstream media."
