Fox News Outed as Administration Surrogate
We knew it all along, but is Fox New's real role starting to become common knowledge? Think Progress reports on an interesting exchange between Terry Moran of ABC News and White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. While they were using this as an example of White House stonewalling on the Plame case, I find another aspect far more interesting (and changed the portion which is bolded):
Suppression of Knowledge By the Right
Fox Anchor Slips, Showing Identification With Republican Party
Fox Slips Again in Admitting Bias
Dean: Fox News is a propaganda outlet of the Republican Party
Republican Go-To Guys in the Media
Personally I've Been Comparing Them to Pravda
Related Stories:MORAN: … Fox News and other surrogates are essentially saying that the conversation lasted for two minutes and that the subject was ostensibly welfare reform. They’re getting that information from here, from Karl Rove.
MCCLELLAN: And, again, you’re asking questions that are related to news reports about an ongoing, continuing investigation. And you’ve had my response on that…
Suppression of Knowledge By the Right
Fox Anchor Slips, Showing Identification With Republican Party
Fox Slips Again in Admitting Bias
Dean: Fox News is a propaganda outlet of the Republican Party
Republican Go-To Guys in the Media
Personally I've Been Comparing Them to Pravda
posted by Ron Chusid at 6:41 PM
1 Comments:
I read that and it struck me too. But I think what (may) be significant, since most journalists are pretty aware that Fox is far from unbiased, is that McClellan didn't correct Moran. The whole exchange was a non-event.
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