so much for any claims of "fair and balanced"
Last month, Rupert Murdoch made a revalation at the World Economic Forum in Sweeden that went largely unnoticed. In a 1/2 filled hall, in a seminar about "who will shape the agenda in the future?," the media mogul, who owns Fox News , The New York Post amongst others, admitted to trying to assist the administration in it's efforts to "gin up" the Iraq War.
Murdoch said "We tried [...] We basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East."
Tried? No point in being humble now Mr Murdoch, you succeeded!
So again, it turns out that the critics of the Fox Noise Channel who accused them of not being so "fair and balanced" as they claim, were right. There was a diliberate effort to be used as a propoganda tool for getting us into a needless war in Iraq.
But that comes at no surprise to most of us, who have long clearly seen thru the neoconservative vehicle for the administration posing as a legitimate "news service." A trend that continues today with Fox blatantly accusing potential candidate Barack Obama of being educated in radical Islamic educational institutions. The story, put out by Fox one morning, was completely discredited by the aftrenoon. Fox then tried to blame it on a leak from the Clinton camp, despite absolutely nothing to back the accusation up. They still haven't retracted that one and allow Dick Morris to call her a "monster" on thier airwaves and serve as his vehicle in his anti-hillary hate campaign which has been going on for many years now. Their correspondents, like Dick Morris, continue to "report" the bogus Obama story despite the network quietly issuing a retraction. And Fox stands silent as their reporters repeat lies over and over again, so long as it serves theri purposes, and the administration's. They haven't even taken Morris or anyone else who is shamelessly repeating the bogus stories off the air for a minute, let alone permenantly.
Hopefully, this will serve as a wake-up call to their viewers, those who haven' t quite finished their dose of kool-aid. This doesn't make any other news service any kind of "unrefutable gold standard" of facts. But most of them, unlike Fox, at least attempt to get at the truth rather than serving as a government propoganda tool for great portions of the day and evening.