Where’s Fox ‘News’ on Rupert Murdoch story?
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com
A few words on what Fox News is.
The question has, of course, been debated forever. Fox says it is, as the name would suggest, a news network. Its critics say it is actually the propaganda arm of the Republican Party and that its highest loyalty is not to accuracy, fairness or other journalistic values but to the furtherance of the Party line. Not that any sentient life form should need the help, but events have recently arranged themselves such as to make painfully obvious which view is truth and which is tripe.
As it happens, one of the biggest news stories of the last few weeks has been the phone hacking scandal that now ensnares media baron Rupert Murdoch. For those who somehow missed it, it involves revelations that reporters at Murdoch’s News of the World British tabloid routinely paid police sources for information and hacked into people’s cell phones, including that of a murdered 13-year-old girl.
That’s led to the shutdown of the 168-year-old newspaper, a spate of resignations and arrests, hearings in Parliament, rumored hearings in Congress and criminal investigations here and in the UK. This story is a gift from the news gods and any news organization worthy of the name would jump on it like a trampoline. Most have. Fox has not.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/23/2326769/wheres-fox-news-on-rupert-murdoch.html
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com
A few words on what Fox News is.
The question has, of course, been debated forever. Fox says it is, as the name would suggest, a news network. Its critics say it is actually the propaganda arm of the Republican Party and that its highest loyalty is not to accuracy, fairness or other journalistic values but to the furtherance of the Party line. Not that any sentient life form should need the help, but events have recently arranged themselves such as to make painfully obvious which view is truth and which is tripe.
As it happens, one of the biggest news stories of the last few weeks has been the phone hacking scandal that now ensnares media baron Rupert Murdoch. For those who somehow missed it, it involves revelations that reporters at Murdoch’s News of the World British tabloid routinely paid police sources for information and hacked into people’s cell phones, including that of a murdered 13-year-old girl.
That’s led to the shutdown of the 168-year-old newspaper, a spate of resignations and arrests, hearings in Parliament, rumored hearings in Congress and criminal investigations here and in the UK. This story is a gift from the news gods and any news organization worthy of the name would jump on it like a trampoline. Most have. Fox has not.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/23/2326769/wheres-fox-news-on-rupert-murdoch.html
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