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To: DMaA who wrote (27539)	2/2/2004 11:43:27 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

"Ranting Profs" WHY DO THEY HATE FOX NEWS? Another hysterical overreaction to Fox News, as an important journalist and journalism pedagogue resigns from a Board because it seeks to honor Brit Hume with an award. Well, we can't have that, can we, given that Fox is ideological? (Take a peek at the list of prior award winners and get a laugh. Brit Hume is every bit as good as every one of those other recepients -- he's outstanding -- and no less ideological.) Here's my take on this: all journalism is about taking fragementary pieces of information and figuring out a way to present those pieces of information coherently. The only way to do that is to structure those fragments in the form of a narrative. The narrative frame chosen, however, is not self-evident, anymore than are the items of information included or excluded (that only becomes clear once the narrative frame is chosen.) News production is about making it look as if those choices are not choices at all, but are self-evident. Supress what is choice, that's the whole game, "we just report what we see, it's all objective, neutral." Right. By taking a different spin then the other outlets quite regularly, whether you think that's conservative or whether you think that's a corrective to the other outlets' liberalism, Fox is truly threatening because it makes clear that alternative frames are possible at all. Fox confirms our suspicion that there is choice involved. Fox threatens the mainstream media's position and belief that they should have the monopoly on defining the narrative, not only by presenting an alternative, but by teaching us all that alternatives are possible and that the mainstream outlets are just choosing one alternative from among many. And if they're making a choice, then it isn't self-evident and we're free to reject their choice because it is a choice and not THE TRUTH. Fox's very existence reveals the man behind the curtain and threatens the entire system. And that's why they hate it, not because they think it's "conservative." Although that doesn't help. rantingprofs.typepad.com