{"id":5904,"date":"2011-12-07T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2011-12-07T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:32:02","slug":"the-phony-fox-news-course-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5904","title":{"rendered":"The Phony Fox News Course Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago Fox News CEO Roger Ailes told the Daily Beast<\/a> that his network was undergoing an editorial realignment that he called a “course correction.”<\/em> The implication was that Fox would cease to be the fiercely partisan propaganda outlet for which it has become so well known.<\/p>\n

Well, that didn’t last long.<\/p>\n

This morning Fox Business Network anchor Stuart Varney appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio program and candidly announced his political biases while discussing the upcoming presidential election:<\/p>\n

“We must win. I say ‘We’ – I’m a conservative, I’m a Republican. I say we must win”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Varney went on to declare that if Obama is reelected the country will be bankrupt in four years. Of course, Hannity agreed with everything Varney said. This is a pretty good example of the actual course that Fox intends to pursue. And the political beneficiaries of Fox’s agenda know full well what they can expect from their favorite network. Mitt Romney was interviewed by Neil Cavuto yesterday and testified on behalf of the network saying…<\/p>\n

“I’ll be on Fox a lot, because you guys matter when it comes to Republican primary voters.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed they do. In just the past two months since the alleged course correction, Fox News has hosted Liz Cheney to accuse Obama of wanting the economy to fail. They invited Victoria Jackson to present her shrill theory that Obama is a communist. They have relentlessly broadcast numerous phony stories in an effort to tarnish the administration (i.e. fast and furious, climate researcher’s emails, a Christmas tree tax, etc.) And they have gone out of their way to misrepresent Obama’s public remarks, such as the fuss they made out of his using the word “lazy.”<\/em> This week Fox didn’t even bother to broadcast all of Obama’s major economic speech in Kansas. They cut away from the speech about half way through in order to air an interview with GOP loser Michele Bachmann.<\/p>\n

So if anyone has fallen for the fairy tale that Fox is moderating their extremist right-wing activism, they clearly are not paying attention to the barrage of hostility that continues to emanate from Murdoch’s media. The Fox empire has never been more offensive and unethical, even when they still had Glenn Beck’s ravings blasting the airwaves. If they have made any course correction at all, it is further to the right and in support of the GOP primary candidates. And given the sorry nature of that bunch, you would think that they’ve suffered enough embarrassment for the remainder of this year and next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago Fox News CEO Roger Ailes told the Daily Beast that his network was undergoing an editorial realignment that he called a “course correction.” The implication was that Fox would cease to be the fiercely partisan propaganda outlet for which it has become so well known. Well, that didn’t last long. 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