Arianna Huffington watches the Golf Channel.
OK, maybe not. But the self-described “former conservative who saw the light” was only half-joking this week when she said she was about ready to give up on cable news.
That FOX News Channel is in the pocket of the Republican Party is not a revelation. But when news junkies like Huffington find themselves switching the channel to avoid FOX’s Laci-Scott-Kobe theater of the bizarre -- not to mention its fraudulent version of "fair and balanced" reporting -- it’s clear there’s something wrong with the way news is delivered in America.
Huffington was part of a five-person panel held at New School University in Manhattan Tuesday to discuss “Big Media, The ‘FOX Effect,’ and Journalism Today.” In other words, how big a threat are media monopolies to democracy? And is FOX pulling other networks and forms of media to the right?
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http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8105Link to Real Audio of panel discussion can be found here:
http://www.dialnsa.edu/nsou_frameset.cfm?link=special_events&sanchor=bigmedia(use Webcast link at bottom of page)
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