{"id":3523,"date":"2010-03-12T20:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2010-03-12T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:47:45","slug":"why-dont-honest-journalists-take-on-roger-ailes-and-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/03\/12\/why-dont-honest-journalists-take-on-roger-ailes-and-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howell Raines in the 14 March 2010 Washington Post writes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/11\/AR2010031102523.html\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">Why don&#8217;t honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven&#8217;t America&#8217;s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration &#8212; a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is one snip (out of many) from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is true that, after 14 months of Fox&#8217;s relentless pounding of President Obama&#8217;s idea of sweeping reform, the latest Gallup poll shows opinion running 48 to 45 percent against the current legislation. Fox invariably stresses such recent dips in support for the legislation, <strong>disregarding the majorities in favor of various individual aspects of the reform effort<\/strong>. Along the way, the network has sold a falsified image of the professional standards that developed in American newsrooms and university journalism departments in the last half of the 20th century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong>bolded<\/strong> phrase in the above paragraph refers to the 23 February 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) report titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/kaiserpolls\/posr022310nr.cfm\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">Americans Remain Split  On Stalled Health Care Legislation, but Some Provisions Popular Among Majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the whole Raines article and the KFF report.\u00a0 In your heart, you know this material &#8230; but it&#8217;s nice to see it spelled out.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howell Raines in the 14 March 2010 Washington Post writes, Why don&#8217;t honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?. One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}