"Fox News has been living a life beyond consequence for years."

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: When Fox News Is the Story
By DAVID CARR
Published: July 7, 2008

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. Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.

And if all that stuff doesn’t slow me down and I actually end up writing something, there might be a large hangover: Phone calls full of rebuke for a dependent clause in the third to the last paragraph, a ritual spanking in the blogs with anonymous quotes that sound very familiar, and — if I really hit the jackpot — the specter of my ungainly headshot appearing on one of Fox News’s shows along with some stern copy about what an idiot I am....

***

Fox News found a huge runway and enormous success by setting aside the conventions of bloodless objectivity, but along the way, it altered the rules of engagement between reporters and the media organizations they cover. Under its chief executive, Roger Ailes, Fox News and its public relations apparatus have waged a permanent campaign on behalf of the channel that borrows its methodology from his days as a senior political adviser to Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

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....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/media/07carr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=business&pagewanted=all

[screembloodymurder]

1. Everyone associated with Fox should be tried for treason.

Traitors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ihavenobias]

2. K & R

[windoe]

3. Corruption of the press has polluted the minds of people

and fed a kind of mass psychosis of denial and suppression of reality. It has been like watching an evil cartoon, plastic faces masquerading as feeling human beings weaving a sick alternative universe that predates on innocence and honesty, twisting it around to fit in their delusion. It is truly a social disease of a magnitude not seen in this country before, and it must be eradicated in the name of mental health.