Don't Let Murdoch Outfox Britain: A Warning From Across the Atlantic
David Fenton
HuffPost
Posted: 12/7/11
Is Rupert Murdoch "fit and proper?" The authorities deciding this should review the behavior of his U.S. property Fox News. It's conduct would be truly shocking to the British public. Murdoch has indicated he wants your broadcasting to be more like American TV, so it's worth taking a hard look at Fox and his other U.S. properties.
Americans who follow Murdoch's Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal opinion page can document a systematic pattern of disregard for facts, intentional misinformation, and the deliberate abuse of journalistic power to repeat the "big lie" till it sticks. In the U.S., Fox News has created a false, alternate version of reality for viewers, corrupting the very notion of facts and truth itself.
A prominent American pollster recently told me that "in the past, people had different opinions about the same set of facts. But since Fox News, people now believe different sets of facts."
This isn't a question of partisanship or ideology -- it's the overthrow of basic journalistic ethics in pursuit of it. Behavior that is undermining the ability of people to govern themselves knowledgeably. To many Americans, the lack of morality at Murdoch's News International in the United Kingdom comes as no surprise.
(More here.)
HuffPost
Posted: 12/7/11
Is Rupert Murdoch "fit and proper?" The authorities deciding this should review the behavior of his U.S. property Fox News. It's conduct would be truly shocking to the British public. Murdoch has indicated he wants your broadcasting to be more like American TV, so it's worth taking a hard look at Fox and his other U.S. properties.
Americans who follow Murdoch's Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal opinion page can document a systematic pattern of disregard for facts, intentional misinformation, and the deliberate abuse of journalistic power to repeat the "big lie" till it sticks. In the U.S., Fox News has created a false, alternate version of reality for viewers, corrupting the very notion of facts and truth itself.
A prominent American pollster recently told me that "in the past, people had different opinions about the same set of facts. But since Fox News, people now believe different sets of facts."
This isn't a question of partisanship or ideology -- it's the overthrow of basic journalistic ethics in pursuit of it. Behavior that is undermining the ability of people to govern themselves knowledgeably. To many Americans, the lack of morality at Murdoch's News International in the United Kingdom comes as no surprise.
(More here.)
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