IPFS News Link • Propaganda
IPFS News Link • Propaganda
News flash: Fox News is not an unbiased purveyor of information. Not news, you say? OK, it's true that Steve Benen and Conor Friedersdorf say exactly that on almost a daily basis. What is news is that the
latest criticism comes from a former employee of the network itself.
Roger Ailes runs a famously tight-lipped ship, and ex-staffers tend to
be reluctant to talk about their work at Fox, even anonymously. But Media Matters obtained some comments from an anonymous former employee who says flatly that
Fox is "a propaganda outfit." When asked what people would be most
surprised to learn about the network, the source said, "I don't think
people would believe it's as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made
up." He or she says Fox has gotten more and more partisan over the
years: "For the first few years it was, let's take the conservative take
on things. And then after a few years it evolved into, well it's not
just the conservative take on things, we're going to take the Republican
take on things. ... And then two, three, five years into that it was,
we're taking the Bush line on things." With Bush out of the news,
producers have had to find other things to be worked up about. "If one
controversy faded, goddamn it they would find another one," the source
said. "You always have to seem like your values are under attack. The
brain trust just knew instinctively which stories to do, like the War on
Christmas."