Fox Faking It
That’s the declaration from disgraced NY Times Executive Editor Howell Raines. Here’s Raines’ specific quote:
“Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for ‘fair’ news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest of America’s periodic religious manias. The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its ‘news’ is made up. “It matters not when critics point this out to Foxite consumers because they’ve understood it from the outset. That’s why they’re there.”
This coming from the man that let Jayson Blair write fictional stories for over a year. All I’ve got to say to Mr. Raines is “PUUHHHLEEAZE!!!” This is the type of paranoid babbling that we’ve gotten used to, as much as is possible. Raines undoubtedly put that in there to sell books but I wouldn’t be surprised if his autobiography jumped off the shelves by the dozens. Don’t be surprised if you read an article a month from now talking about how poorly the book is selling. It wouldn’t surprise me if his autobiography is this summer’s equivalent of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”.
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Cross-post at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 24th, 2006 at 11:49 am
It wouldn’t surprise me if his autobiography is this summer’s equivalent of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truthâ€.
Probably not an apt comparison since most of the science in An Inconvenient Truth is spot on.
June 24th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Since Howell Raines is so sure about Fox News being in error, maybe he should explain to the rest of us the following:
a). The recent NYT depiction of a unexpended 155-mm artillery round as the “remnants” of a Hellfire missile that reportedly killed a family of innocents in Pakistan.
b). The nonsense reporting by Walter Duranty in the NYT that there was no mass starvation in the Soviet Ukraine during the early 1930’s. To this day the NYT still proudly displays Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize, and Duranty’s relationship to Joseph Stalin is such that the NYT’s credibility still remains far below that of Fox News.
June 24th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Another example of projection (or is it tu quoque) from a leading voice on the left.
June 24th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
If anyone should know about lying, conniving, traitorous manipulation of the news, it is anyone who has worked in Raines’ NYT position in the last 3 or 4 decades.
Sleazebags. They can’t even get this right.
June 24th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
That’s because the don’t want to get it right. That’s why they’re part of the Agenda Media. It isn’t about getting it right; it’s about advancing their Bush-hating agenda!!!