Is Fox News Swinging Left?
Hahahahaha. I’ll believe this when I see it but it was fun to contemplate whether Fox will swing left any time before hell freezes over. Can MSNBC’s ratings be that high that Fox is running scared?
Arena asks:Is Fox News swinging left?
My response: Fox is starting to report the news instead of parroting right wing screed? What a thought!
Could this move be related to something in the headlines today, a new feminist channel announced by Alltopic to compete with Google’s, signaling a renewed interest in these issues? Or to the obvious national consensus that birth control is actually a basic element of health care and should be covered as such? Or has Rupert Murdock’s corruption scandal made even Roger Ailes rethink the ethics of running a media outlet on ideology rather than, well, news?
[Photo: Roger Ailes at Fox News. | Reuters ]
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I’m not going to switch my viewing habits anytime soon, but it is heartening to see that worshipers of marketplace economics are susceptible to the same marketplace economics. Maybe I’ll be a little less annoyed in the future by television screens in public places blaring Fox newscasts.
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No, Fox isn’t swinging left. It’s just that the GOP and their Evangelical and Tea Party base have swung so far to the extreme right that at times Fox may actually sound reasonable when it covers an issue from the viewpoint of an actual, rational person. Personally, I don’t have a lot of hope for mainstream journalism in general. Just take a gander over to Glenn Greenwald’s blog over at Salon to see how the media abandoned, long ago, any pretense of actual investigative journalism or accountability.
This is the brilliance of the GOP and the Right- they become so extreme that the new definition of “moderate” is way to the right of the middle. The Supreme Court became so extreme Souter and Breyer were practically radical leftists.
This total perversion of the political spectrum is why the media so willingly parrots the ridiculous line that Obama is a lefty despite the fact that he’s done little other than pander to Wall Street while expanding the worst executive power excesses of the Bush administration in the war/foreign policy area.
Thank goodness for No Excuses Power Tool #8: Employ every medium, and the social media that allows us all to have more of a voice than we have had in the past. Still, I do miss real reporting and analysis that is anything other than many talking heads repeating the same conventional wisdom that is rarely accurate (or true).
True. I guess we just have to keep the pressure on the MSM and that is easier to do via the blogosphere/Twitter etc.
Speaking of the MSM, I am sure you have seen or heard about this train wreck (Foster Friess) that appeared on Andrea Mitchell’s show- Mitchell has certainly had some interesting women’s health interviews of late so at least she’s on the ball and exposing some of this nonsense. But this guy takes the cake (via Wonkette because really, Friess is deserving of Wonkette’s snark):
http://wonkette.com/464023/aspirin-has-other-exciting-off-label-use-ladies-will-want-to-know-about#more-464023