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washingtonpost.com
Fact-Free News
By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, October 15, 2003; Page A23
To read
the complete article, click here-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27061-2003Oct14?language=printer
[This link was found on the Washington Post website through a Google search on 3/20/04]
Quotes--
Ever worry that millions of your fellow Americans are walking around knowing
things that you don't? That your prospects for advancement may depend on your mastery of such arcana as who won the Iraqi
war or where exactly Europe is?
Then don't watch Fox News. The more you watch, the more you'll get things
wrong.
Researchers from the Program on International Policy Attitudes (a joint project
of several academic centers, some of them based at the University of Maryland) and Knowledge Networks, a California-based
polling firm, have spent the better part of the year tracking the public's misperceptions of major news events and polling
people to find out just where they go to get things so balled up. This month they released their findings ...
Take a wild flight of fancy with me and assume for just a moment that one
major goal over at Fox is to ensure Bush's reelection. ... By this standard -- moving votes into Bush's column and keeping
them there -- Fox has to be judged a stunning success. ...
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From Salon.com, October 31, 2003
Fox News: the inside story
By Tim Grieve
To read the complete
article, click on-- http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/31/fox/index_np.html
Salon.com's abstract--
A former Fox producer describes the ways -- both subtle and blunt -- that top executives impose a right-wing
ideology on the newsroom.
Oct. 31, 2003 | When veteran television journalist Chris Wallace announced this week that he was leaving ABC for Fox News, reporters asked
him whether he was concerned about trading in his objectivity for Fox's rightward slant. "I had the same conception a lot
of people did about Fox News, that they have a right-wing agenda," Wallace told The Washington Post. But after watching Fox closely, Wallace said, he had decided that the network suffered from an "unfair rap,"
and that its reporting is, in fact, "serious, thoughtful and even-handed."
It was all too much for Charlie Reina to take. Reina, 55, spent six years at Fox as a producer, copy editor and writer,
working both on hard news stories and on feature programs like "News Watch" and "After Hours." He quit in April, he says,
in a fit of frustration over salary, job assignments and respect. Since that time, he has watched the debate over whether
Fox is really "fair and balanced." He held his fire, bit his tongue. But when he heard Wallace proclaim the network fair,
Reina couldn't remain silent any longer.
See the complete interview with Reina at the salon.com website--http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/31/fox/index_np.html
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