Nov. 15, 2006
The Memo
While this is not related exclusively to Brit Hume's "Grapevine", an internal Fox News memo, recently uncovered by the Huffington Post is germaine to any discussion of shows on the network. The memo itself, is a glaring indictment of the propagandistic, partisan nature of the network that laughably boasts "fair and balanced" as its motto. Written by Fox's vice-president of news, it lays out a strategy for undermining the recent Democratic electoral gains through news coverage designed to highlight statements by Iraqi insurgents' who "must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled congress." Indeed, the memo commands Fox News staff to "be on the lookout" for any such statements, so that they might be included in network coverage, even as it seeks to reassure Fox staffers that the Democratic victory is "not the end of the world." The Huffinton Post has a fax of the entire memo on their site. As a bonus, Ill note that our very own sometime Grapevine host, Jim Angle, is mentioned specifically in the memo.
posted by Patriot's Quill at 2:18 AM
2 Comments:
The Fox memo was revealing, but was no surprise. Anyone with the most basic cognitive abilities can see that Fox News has a clear conservative bias and partisan agenda. Brit Hume is a major contributor to this- he cherry picks current events to focus on ones that cast the left in a poor light.
What did surprise me about the memo though was the complete pass-over it got in the so-called "liberal" media. Can you imagine the sh**storm that would have ensued if Republicans won on November 7th and a memo leaked from CBS or ABC that said it was not the end of the world...etc. etc.?? It would still be headlining every news show today, just like the Dan Rather incident did. There would be calls for firings and the blogosphere would be up in arms. Repulican politicians would be holding press conferences calling for ABC and CBS news programs to be taken off the public airwaves.
And yet the memo leaks from Fox News, the leading cable news broadcast, and no one bats an eye. No one cares. Amazing.
You're absolutely right.
Here's a post on that subject from my other blog:
http://davidflores.blogspot.com/2006/11/kurtz-its-supposed-to-be-column-about.html
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