{"id":37373,"date":"2018-03-22T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T01:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37373"},"modified":"2018-03-22T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T01:53:29","slug":"cnn-president-blisters-state-run-tv-aka-fox-news-as-a-pure-propaganda-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37373","title":{"rendered":"CNN President Blisters State-Run TV (aka Fox News) as ‘a Pure Propaganda Machine’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two decades ago a conservative media mogul (Rupert Murdoch) and a right-ring political operative (Roger Ailes) colluded to form America’s first overtly partisan news network devoted to advancing a regressive agenda that favored corporations and the wealthy. And ever since Fox News has faithfully served it’s masters, all the while pretending to be “fair and balanced”<\/em> journalists.<\/p>\n

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For most of that time the rest of the media sheepishly approached Fox News as just another competitor. They rarely spoke honestly about how Fox was deliberately staining the one profession explicitly cited in the Constitution. Consequently, Fox got away with a lot of brazenly biased propaganda and managed to corral America’s Deplorables into a media pen where they felt safe and secure.<\/p>\n

So it was rather surprising to hear CNN president Jeff Zucker’s criticism of Fox at the Financial Times’ “Future of News”<\/em> conference on Thursday. He nailed Fox News in a way that few media executives have in the past twenty years. While nothing he said would be a revelation to anyone who has watched the network for more than two minutes, coming from a corporate media honcho it is borderline breathtaking. Here’s a quick summary of the highlights as reported<\/a><\/strong> by The Hollywood Reporter:<\/p>\n