Newsweek hat aktuell einen meiner Meinung nach sehr lesenswerten Artikel (eine Kolumne eigentlich) über "FOX News" und erklärt anschaulich und beispielhaft, warum der Sender nicht nur miserabel ist, sondern auch unamerikanisch. Hier ist ein Auszug (Hervorhebungen von mir):
Es soll ja immer noch Leute geben, die sich FAUX News anschauen und den Sender als Informationsquelle nutzen. Mir persönlich ist das weiterhin komplett unverständlich.
Den ganzen Artikel gibt es hier: http://www.newsweek.com/id/218192[...] Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for "evidence" that, when presented, is brushed off and ignored.
There is no need to get bogged down in this phony debate, which itself constitutes an abuse of the fair-mindedness of the rest of the media. One glance at Fox's Web site or five minutes' random viewing of the channel at any hour of the day demonstrates its all-pervasive slant. The lefty documentary Outfoxed spent a lot of time mustering evidence that Fox managers order reporters to take the Republican side. But after 13 years under Roger Ailes, Fox employees skew news right as instinctively as fish swim.
Rather than in any way maturing, Fox has in recent months become more boisterous and demagogic. Fox sponsored as much as it covered the anti-Obama "tea parties" this summer. Its "fact checking" about the president's health-care proposal is provided by Karl Rove. And weepy Glenn Beck has begun to exhibit a Strangelovean concern about government invading our bloodstream by vaccinating people for swine flu. With this misinformation campaign, Fox stands to become the first network to actively try to kill its viewers. [...]
Es soll ja immer noch Leute geben, die sich FAUX News anschauen und den Sender als Informationsquelle nutzen. Mir persönlich ist das weiterhin komplett unverständlich.
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