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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (9074)4/19/2005 1:05:40 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Seekers of Truth Threatened by Evil Right Wing Fox

Little Green Footballs

Here’s one for the “you’ve gotta be kidding” file, as the Washington Post’s William Raspberry frets about the threat posed by Fox News to the authoritative “seekers of truth” at the Post and the New York Times:
(Hat tip: Froggy.)

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Fox’s Sandstorm.

So why would I consider Fox such a generalized threat? Because I think the plan is not so much to convince the public that its particular view is correct but rather to sell the notion that what FNC presents is just another set of biases, no worse (and for some, a good deal better) than the biases that routinely drive the presentation of the news on ABC, CBS or NBC — and, by extension, the major newspapers.

For the Foxidation process to work, it isn’t necessary to convince Americans that the verbal ruffians who give FNC its crackle have a corner on the truth — only that all of us in the news business are grinding our partisan axes all the time and that none of us deserves to be taken seriously as seekers of truth.

This is huge. As a friend remarked recently, time was when if you found it in the New York Times, that settled the bar bet and the other guy paid off. But if the Times and The Post or any other mainstream news outlet — including the major networks — come to be seen as the left-of-center counterparts of Fox News Channel, why would anyone accept them as authoritative sources of truth?

What is at risk is not a reputation for infallibility; everyone knows that even the best newspapers and most careful broadcasters make mistakes. But it has been generally accepted that the mainstream media at least try to get it right — even when they too grudgingly acknowledge their errors after the fact.

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