When does Fox News get an ombudsman?

October 6th, 2009 11:47 am · 1 comment

This is actually a fantastic call:

As a proprietor of Big Government and Big Hollywood, part of the team that runs The Drudge Report, and a regular guest on Fox News, especially Sean Hannity’s show, [Andrew Breitbart] is a leader among folks who complain that the Times is a pernicious force in American life—that it ignores stories that cut against its ideological bent, too often makes mistakes in its reporting, and gives insufficient consideration to ideological insights other than those held by its staff. This is somewhat odd given that Mr. Breitbart’s media empire, and the outlets with which he most closely associates himself, are thoroughly ideological enterprises, publish few if any ideologically heterodox pieces, seldom if ever correct factual mistakes, and ignore liberal insights entirely.

These are outlets that scoff at claims that the Times attempts objective journalism, but that never question the “fair and balanced” claim made by Fox News, or acknowledge that they deliberately ignore certain stories. Its critics cite columns written by the Times’ “public editor” as evidence that the newspaper is unaccountable to the American people—yet they’d never dream of allowing semi-autonomous ombudsmen to operate on their own sites. Imagine Fox News, Big Government, or the Drudge Report hiring an honest guy like Jack Shafer to write a prominently displayed column calling them on their bullsh*t.

Emphasis added.

How about it, conservatives?

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ArtVandolay
10/7/09
7:56 AM
I check the Fox News website and typically CNN. The stories are about the same. And these are the storied they report on the staions. Can anyone give specific stories that Fox does not report?

Republican Sex scandals? They do it.

They reported on the Iraq failures and also reported on the success of the surge...which not many other outlets did.

So is there anything wrong with ACORN being exposed? Or Van Jones? Isn't that a good thing? The old story - if it had been A Republican White House, the likes of the NYTimes, Olbermann and Maddow would be frothing at the mouth rings totally.

Where are the news photos of the Afghan war American casualties? On Drudge.



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