It’s Time to Scrutinize Fox
NY Review of Books / Michael Massing
02-Aug-2011 (2 comments)

Last year, the New York Times sent three investigative reporters to London to dig into the hacking practices of the News of the World. After five months of reporting and writing, they produced a story that, together with the tenacious reporting of the Guardian, helped set off the current outcry. Why not devote similar resources to Fox, a far more influential outlet on the home front?

In Britain, it took the revelation of a squalid phone-hacking ploy
for a backlash against Murdoch-style journalism to develop. What will it
take here?

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Roozbeh_Gilani

scrutinize him:

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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch

A very rich man, deciding what kind of "news" people need to read and hear and who they should ultimately vote for. In that respect, a bit like our own Khamenei, minus all the fancy titles and a lot less richer!

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


Mash Ghasem

Fox has helped to foster the Tea Party and amplify its message.

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The endless publicity given the Tea Party, in turn, helped make possible
the sweeping Republican gains in the 2010 midterm elections. According
to New York magazine, FOX News president Roger Ailes, disappointed with the Republican presidential field, called New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
to urge him to enter the race—one of a number of king-making bids by
Ailes, who, the magazine observed, has in a sense become “the head of
the Republican Party.”