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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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Correction Needed: WashPost Book Critic Indicts Fox News (Born In 1996) for Gary Hart Scandal In 1987
By Tim Graham
October 12, 2014 | 9:24 AM EDT

Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley somehow imagined Fox News played a role in Gary Hart’s undoing over his adultery in 1987....but Fox News went on the air in 1996. Aren’t there any copy editors at the Post who are old enough to remember such a basic fact about the news business?
Yardley was reviewing the new book “All The Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid” by former Newsweek reporter Matt Bai, lamenting how Hart was ruined by a suddenly nosy “media rampage,” and politics was forever changed. While Yardley correctly suggests Bai’s prose is overwrought, it’s also remarkably un-historical, since the press never exactly ruined the presidential chances of Bill Clinton or John Edwards in a “media rampage.”

In those days “the press” meant, to all intents and purposes, newspapers. By 1987, though, things were beginning to change. CNN and Fox had recently arrived on the scene, jazzing up the news in ways unfamiliar to the stodgy big three of ABC, CBS and NBC...

CNN came on the air in 1980, so that half is also a little thin. Yardley laments Washington Post reporter Paul Taylor asking Hart if he had ever committed adultery. The widespread media revulsion at that Taylor question was what changed modern journalism. Yardley reflects that ...

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