"At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton)," Shuster said. "I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows.
"With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing," he said.
For those who still defend Fox as unbiased, this is just more evidence to the contrary. Encouraging aggressive attacking of one President, then shielding the next can not be a clearer indication of Bias, but it goes deeper.
"But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn't care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that."
Fox is not journalism, it is propaganda from the far right. It's goal is not to educate and inform, but to sway opinion and inflame. They lie, twist, distort and spin to support their party and their positions, even when the truth doesn't.
Hat tip to Cellar Door
2 comments:
It's nice to finally hear a former Fox Newsperson spill the beans about those people. they are dishonest and have no journalistic ethics. When your news programs start spouting a "party line" instead of being independent, this country is in dire trouble. Why do only 25% of the people who are qualified to vote - being of age, citizens, etc. -actually cast a ballot? It's because the newspapers, television and especially AM radio have quit questioning those in authority when they do unethical things, lie to the electorate, make up stories against the decent politicians and make excuses for the thugs currently in power. Sad - so very sad. Where are the Edward R. Murrows of this generation? Will we ever have freedom of the press again?
Press is no longer free in the U.S. when a distant relative of the William Marcy Tweed legacy is at the country's helm, slowly bankrupting it and forcing his/her will on the freedom of the press. Can't have the good citizens know how bad things really are, they might riot!
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