Quote of the Week*
"Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for 'fair' news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest of America's periodic religious manias. The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its 'news' is made up….Fox Television showed us the future -- outright lies and paranoid opinions packaged as news under the oversight of Rupert [Murdoch], a flagrant pirate, and Roger Ailes, an unprincipled Nixon thug who had assumed a journalistic disguise in much the same way that the intergalactic insect in Men in Black shrugged into the borrowed skin of a hapless hillbilly."
-- Times former Executive Editor Howell Raines, from his autobiography on fly-fishing, "The One that Got Away."
* Picked as one of the quotes of note by TimesWatch, a right-wing Internet site devoted to documenting and exposing the liberal agenda of the NY Times
Comments
Wha, Wha, Wha, Wha......
Lets assume for sake of argument they are. Like MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN and to a certain extent ABC are Fair and Balanced? Raines is a bitter man who blames FNN and the Internet for the downfall of NYT. People don't have to buy the MSM slant anymore; they have places to go for the the other side of the story. Drives you lefties "Crazier" it's a win/win for our side :-)
Posted by: Danny | August 2, 2008 9:16 PM
Howell Raines was forced to resign from the NYT because of the Jayson Blair scandal. He's hardly one to throw around accusations of false journalism.
Posted by: nooch | August 3, 2008 11:13 AM
On the Internet, danny and nooch, EVERYONE can see you're an idiot! Now we know.
Posted by: KJ | August 3, 2008 11:37 AM
Hey Danny? If I send you a big Obama "O", you can cut it out and play ring toss whenever you get a stiffie while watching Billo.
Posted by: mono | August 4, 2008 6:48 AM