{"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":"<p>Eric Boehlert <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200910130008\">ties together<\/a> nicely what every one of us already knows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fox News <a title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200908210044\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200908210044\">has exited<\/a> the journalism  community this year. It&#8217;s a <a title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200908170001\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200908170001\">purely political  player<\/a>, and journalists ought  to start covering it that way.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>A few years  ago, the dumbed-down  debate surrounding Fox News was whether it truly was fair and balanced. (It  wasn&#8217;t.) Today, it&#8217;s whether Fox News is truly a news organization. (It&#8217;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&#8217;  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<p>Why does this matter?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;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 &#8212; forces that  dramatically altered the media landscape. News consumers also need to understand  why it&#8217;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<p>It&#8217;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":"<p>Eric Boehlert ties together nicely what every one of us already knows: Fox News has exited the journalism community this year. It&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}