Former Fox News senior reporter says network wants to keep media polarized

[meowomon]

Source: Rawstory.com

Fox News wants to maintain an ideological divide within the media for marketing reasons, says a senior reporter that recently left the network.

Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday, Major Garrett explained that his former employer has a vested interest in making sure the media is as polarized as possible.

NPR fired longtime analyst Juan Williams last week after he expressed fear of Muslims in airports.

"Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," Williams told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. "You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/fox-news-senior-reporter-fox-media-polarized/

[gratuitous]

1. Fox's major problem in keeping the media polarized

Is that the "liberal" media keep adopting Fox's positions. They're having to get crazier and crazier to stay ahead of the curve.

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. +1

Amen!

[valerief]

7. You got that right! nt

[curiousdemo]

18. Ditto.....

Major Garrett was fed up with the lies and polarization of Fake News. Good for him he left and found piece with himself. This network is a time bomb waiting to happen. Their lies will soon catch up with them. :nuke:

[JerseygirlCT]

12. Nailed it. nt

[66 dmhlt]

19. Billboard nails their mantra:

[Enthusiast]

30. I thought the same

thing before I read a single post. I thought it because it is true. And just look at the damage it has done to the nation. We are mired in ignorance. TV could be the greatest force for education instead it is a source of ignorance.

[zehnkatzen]

2. k/r, if only because this is valuable.

[sadbear]

3. Major is guilty by association.

If he believes what he says, he should have quit years ago.

[bhikkhu]

11. This is the piece of work who "interviewed" Obama for Hannity's show

...back before the election. He was one hard-edge hateful sack with no respect then, I doubt that he's any different now.

[Turbineguy]

4. They make money

every time one of their dupes shoots somebody or at least tries to.

[SteveM]

6. Problem for Fox is that the country (and MSM) are not polarized...

There is but one "pole," that of the Right Wing (extreme to blow-it-out extreme). There is no opposition.
As far as the "left" goes, no one wants anything to do with the "left;" not Obama, not the Democratic Party, certainly not MSM.

Fox is in the biz of manufacturing controversy.

[daleanime]

33. Hell yea...

Nailed it.:banghead:

[Lasher]

8. I am not a bigot

I am not a crook.

I am not a witch.

I am you.

[nolabear]

9. Ya THINK???

There's nothing like a cry of "Fight! Fight!!" to draw a crowd unless it's "They're coming for you! They're coming for you!" Both sides know that. A happy populace can't be sold things to assuage their fear and make them feel superior and reinforce the fact that their team is, after all "the Good Guys." All media plays into it and these days the info cycle is so short and the number of opportunists is so vast that all they can do is ramp it up more and more and hope we respond.

Happens here at DU all the time. It's very, very seductive.

[defendandprotect]

10. Who is it that considers Faux News part of the media????

Who considers the corporate-press as part of a free press -- ???

Notice that the Bushes were always able and willing to suggest that we have a

liberal media -- sing-songing it, catapulting the propaganda --

and not much of a Dem/left wing response, if any at all -- !!

Couple of books were written -- but little directly from Democrats!

[harun]

13. Only with everyone divided can the elite always have their way. It is about

divide and conquer more than it is about Right and Left. With Fox it is just about the rich and poor. They don't give a shit if the Left or Right keeps the rich getting more rich.

With the media all moving to the right, they are now out in crazy land, moving farther right and scrambling on how to stay still polarized. Hence the astro-turfed T-BAGGERS. They don't even have real positions, they are just against everyone else. The perfect stand for them, always opposed to everyone else, but actually doing nothing.

[happygoluckytoyou]

26. CLASS WARFARE. trick is wealthy making TEABAGGERS vote against their own interests

[alllyingwhores]

14. DUH.

[newtothegame]

15. Sure. Media is a business. They're practicing good business sense.

That's why they thrive.

[Initech]

16. At least we have Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to sort out the insanity.

[pengillian101]

20. At least we have Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to sort out the insanity.

Really, you think that? They are just in it for the money/ratings/money is what I think...

They blow whichever way the wind blows. They are comedians, for Pete's sake. That's their living.

[Initech]

22. Jon Stewart was right when he pointed out that our media has the attention span of the dog from UP!

Squirrel?????????

[woo me with science]

31. Bwah! nt

[madmax]

17. Just wondering if Rupert

croaks, who will take over and are they a nutjob also. And why can he own any US Media - he's Australian. I missed what changed. TMI too little brain cells left.

[madmax]

23. too late to edit - he's an American Citizen :-(

[mwooldri]

29. If Rupert Murdoch passes away, then it is likely his son James will take over.

He already runs some of Ruperts' businesses.

Considering James Murdoch's actions - calling BBC's expansion "chilling", and marching into a rival newspapers' offices after they posted a number of billboards that simply stated "Rupert Murdoch will not decide this election. You will." - gives a simple impression to me.

[Enthusiast]

32. I pray that he dies.

I pray that he dies now, that he doesn't take another breath.

[CC]

34. Murdock went and got

himself made and American citizen so he could own more news outlets in the US.

[JI7]

21. Major Garrett was/is a Right Wing Whore ,that's why he left CNN to go to Fox News

i'm wondering why he got fired at Fox or why he left. but considering what a wingnut whore he was i'm thinking he got fired and now is lashing out.

this is the first time i hear he is not there anymore.

[txaslftist]

24. They are doing a hell of a job.

[happygoluckytoyou]

25. i want my 2011 fox calendar.... BATSHIT CRAZY WOMEN OF THE GOP

[nunyabidness]

27. Why is there only two sentences on the Major, then we talk about Juan Williams?

Is that the story in the title? "Former Fox News senior reporter says network wants to keep media polarized and Juan Williams does`nt like Muslims" should be the title.

[kenny blankenship]

28. So, no matter how far to the right CNN goes, Fox will always move further off into neofascism?

How much longer until we get to the Promised Land?