{"id":3348,"date":"2009-10-13T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T13:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T13:14:47","slug":"taking-fox-for-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/10\/13\/taking-fox-for-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Fox For What It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Boehlert ties together<\/a> nicely what every one of us already knows:<\/p>\n

Fox News has exited<\/a> the journalism community this year. It’s a purely political player<\/a>, and journalists ought to start covering it that way.<\/p>\n

[ . . . ]<\/p>\n

A few years ago, the dumbed-down debate surrounding Fox News was whether it truly was fair and balanced. (It wasn’t.) Today, it’s whether Fox News is truly a news organization. (It’s not.) Yet journalists remain way too timid in spelling out the truth. Spooked by right-wing attacks about the so-called liberal media, Beltway media insiders, who certainly understand Fox News’ brazen political maneuver in 2009, continue to play dumb on a massive scale and cover Fox News as a news media organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why does this matter?<\/p>\n

It’s important that this trend now stop. The self-evident truth needs to be told, and news consumers need to understand the extraordinary forces that have been unleashed — forces that dramatically altered the media landscape. News consumers also need to understand why it’s becoming increasingly impossible to maintain any kind of public discourse regarding the issues of the day, especially health care reform, when a major so-called news organization is devoted to spreading as much misinformation as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s doing real damage to this country, and once again, most of the press is unwilling to cover it honestly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Boehlert ties together nicely what every one of us already knows: Fox News has exited the journalism community this year. It’s a purely political player, and journalists ought to start covering it that way. [ . . . ] A few years ago, the dumbed-down debate surrounding Fox News was whether it truly was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t