{"id":374,"date":"2007-03-12T02:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T09:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-07-17T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:18:18","slug":"the-greatest-danger-to-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Danger To Journalism…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…is Fox News. And now Roger Ailes confirms it<\/a> via his own definition:<\/p>\n

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If there were an Irony Police, Ailes would be arrested, tried before an Irony Court, and put behind irony bars for the rest of his venal life. There is simply no organization in the news world that has less<\/em> diversity of thought than Fox News and its parent, News Corp. Their GOP-think, ideological blindness extends across newspapers, TV, radio, and even into the White House where a former Fox anchor serves as the President’s press secretary. And it is from that podium that Ailes, former media guru for Nixon and Bush, condescends to lecture on the dangers facing journalism. The irony may only be exceeded by the audacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is Fox News. And now Roger Ailes confirms it via his own definition: If there were an Irony Police, Ailes would be arrested, tried before an Irony Court, and put behind irony bars for the rest of his venal life. There is simply no organization in the news world that has less diversity of thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,8,16],"tags":[33,143],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-graphix","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-fox-news","tag-roger-ailes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-62","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9857,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9857","url_meta":{"origin":374,"position":0},"title":"Breitbart Execs Furiously Fluffing Fox News And Roger Ailes","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/8\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Breitbart News has suffered a dramatic decline in the \"quality\" (if you can call it that) of their yellow journalism since the sudden demise of their guiding blight, Andrew Breitbart. 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