One story that the MSM has been very enamored of this year is the Obama administration vs. Fox News. The administration (rightly IMO) has accused Fox of being biased. The MSM has circled the wagons in defending Fox and going as far as saying Fox = MSNBC (someone please remind me at what time Fox shows 3 hours of liberal talk). Ever since the MSM has started defending Fox (some even going so far to say the Obama administration was “Nixonian”), Fox has made fools of them time and time again.
Then Rupert Murdoch says that maybe Glenn Beck is right that President Obama is a racist.
Jon Stewart at The Daily Show is about the only person outside the blogosphere doing serious media criticism. This time he catches Hannity trying to pass off the 9/12 Tea Party footage as the footage from Bachmann’s much smaller rally from last week. (Hannity also tried to pass off crowd estimates from Obama’s inauguration as crowd estimates for the 9/12 Tea Party.) At what point will the rest of the media say “enough is enough?” Seriously I don’t care if Fox is partisan or not, but I do care that Fox calls themselves a news network when they are anything but that. Fox is talk radio on cable.
Do you ever feel like you’re watching a co-dependent relationship? The mainstream media wants so badly for the rightwing to like them that they continually grovel while the rightwing continues kicking them in the teeth. Please media – you’re embarrassing yourselves, just stop. The world will not end if you admit that Fox is not a news channel but a propaganda channel. Treating Fox as an equal partner has allowed them to create an alternate reality for their fans that does not exist. Our country is divided because the media is too busy being “objective” to be informative. Telling us who is truthful and who is lying should be a part of the job description.