April 22, 2010

Fair and balanced, huh?

Gosh, I'm shocked.

In recent years, at least twenty Fox News personalities have endorsed, raised money, or campaigned for Republican candidates or causes, or against Democratic candidates or causes, in more than 300 instances and in at least 49 states. Republican parties and officials have routinely touted these personalities' affiliations with Fox News to sell and promote their events.
Now, some of these folks (Bolton, Gingrich, Huckabee) are former politicians or Republican Administration employees, so that's not a real surprise, but Fox's news anchors doing it seems to blatantly ignore the supposed rules of journalistic objectivity.

Details at the linked post.

Posted by Linkmeister at April 22, 2010 01:05 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Applying the "journalistic objectivity" standard to Fox News assumes that Fox News practices actual journalism. I think that assumption is false.

Posted by: hedera at April 22, 2010 08:37 PM

Ah, but they claim they do.

Posted by: Linkmeister at April 22, 2010 08:45 PM