I stumbled across this unexpected treat in the New Duranty Times – and after this morning’s post on how that newspaper is essentially unchanged since they protected Stalin from criticism for killing millions and today continue to protect murderous, terrorist thugs with dishonest reporting – the timing simply could not be better.
A NY Times reporter is whingeing about Fox News.
Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters — Fox News — a series of alarms begins to whoop in my head: Danger. Warning. Much mayhem ahead.
I understand just how he feels. That’s how I feel about much of the reporting in his newspaper.
At Fox News, media relations is a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them. Shooting the occasional messenger is baked right into the process.
As crude as that sounds, it works. By blacklisting reporters it does not like, planting stories with friendlies at every turn, Fox News has been living a life beyond consequence for years. Honesty compels me to admit that I have choked a few times at the keyboard when Fox News has come up in a story and it was not absolutely critical to the matter at hand.
The New York Times, on the other hand, is a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep the Bush administration in line, usually by maiming them. Exposing the occasional classified, formerly effictive anti-terror program is baked right into the process. And the NY Times, too, has been living a life beyond consequence for such patently treasonous activity for years; Fox evidently has a better enforcement arm than the federal government.
while Shepard Smith’s amazing reporting in New Orleans got some play, he was not cast as one of the journalistic heroes of the disaster.
Speaking as a native New Orleanian who came back on an advance permit before the city was re-opened and who knows many people who stayed the entire time, including people who lost loved ones, and people who were in the Superdome and in the Convention Center… I wonder if that’s perhaps because Shep Smith is a histrionic ass who got the story mostly wrong? As did the rest of you bozos. Heroes? Not even close. The heroes were the US Coast Guard, not the journalists who hindered their mission by publishing hysterical rumors. But I digress.
Evidently this reporter is unhappy because Fox childishly photoshopped his picture. Well, yes, that was ridiculous. Fox should be ashamed for doing it. Less ashamed, however, than the NY Times and AP and Reuters should be for their fauxtography; mocking a New York Times reporter seems less serious, somehow, than deliberate dishonesty about war. And isn’t it interesting who benefited from all those other instances of fauxtography? Not one of those propaganda pieces they published favored America or her allies.
And the icing on the cake is this tidbit on one of the other altered photos -
he was appalled to see what he viewed as an anti-Semitic caricature of Mr. Steinberg
Yeah… Fox News, staunch supporter of Israel, to the point that far leftists screech about its Zionist neocon agenda, is anti-Semitic. You betcha.
I’m not here to defend Fox News. I don’t even have cable TV anymore, so it’s not like I have a dog in this fight. But to whinge about some high-school variety, painfully obvious photoshopping while his own paper exposes classified programs and daily manipulates war news that affects people’s lives and futures is rich.
