Jarrett: 'Of Course' Fox News Is Biased

I could use a little more "calling out" of the media's distortions and lies, and I like that the White House has decided to push back against the ceaseless tide of drivel broadcast daily by Fox News.

@fsudsirector:

Yes, exactly.

CNN spent a good amount of time on Sunday morning engaging the question of whether or not the NYTimes story on who gets to play basketball with the President was "news." I think the consensus emerged that it was poorly-written, poorly-sourced etc., etc., and did not warrant frontpage/above-the-fold placement.

So: Did this same roundtable spend a good amount of time bemoaning the WH and Fox "battle" (a frame the media made up)? Sure.

But then they spent time critically analyzing a story, as opposed to simply discussing the story as "fact."

All the WH postmodernists were probably high-fiving (too masculine, huh?) and/or doing the happy dance (maybe too ethnic, huh?)!

mphillip

I don't tweet but, I hope that someone who does sent Brown the link to the Media Matters page with 23 examples of fox new's duplicity. It's interesting that the media doesn't even seem curious enough to check it out for themselves. It's actually a form of malpractice on their part. It's called INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING! Could someone let them know?

Even if networks are asking "Is Fox News biased?" or Fox defending itself by saying "Fox is not biased" all that is really happening is folks are hearing "Fox" and "Biased" together a lot - which is how it will register in our brains.

It's also funny because it's killing Fox with it's own creation "The Cavuto Mark", that has been adopted by Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and is basically a Fox News MO.

The Cavuto Mark - http://www.newshounds.us/2006/09/14/jon_stewart_explains_the_cavuto_mark.php

Push the Van Jones Window every day.

Republicans are assholes. The more we say it, the less "outrageous" it will seem to be. Plus it's true.

Credit where credit is due. Foxnews, the brainchild of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch, was the first large-scale rollout of the narrowcasting format, a good decade ahead of the atomization and democratization of content production and delivery now emerging on the web. Ailes understood he had a ready audience, albeit elderly (Foxnews average viewer is 71, I believe), ready for a nice mix of self-righteous windbagishness and daily political memes. Even today you will find households in the US where elderly people keep the tv on all day tuned to Foxnews. They don't really pay that much attention, rather the act seems to provide an anchor or statement about their belief system. At its peak a few years ago, it seemed you had to endure Foxnews blaring in all kind of public or quasi-public spaces (hotels, restaurants, airport lounges)as an implicit assurance that the establishment owner was on the same political side. As the original Foxnews audience dies off, the new cohort targeted for replacement (white males who grew up in the Reagan era) has less concern about being tax poor and black folks doing home invasions, but a greater interest in titties and beer (more Jill Dobson, less BillO). Let's be honest, the Foxnews fantasy is concocted with the same ingredients as other consumer advertising.

Girl fight! I'm putting my money on Valerie Jarrett.

BTW, Campbell is married to a ReThuglican mouthpiece. Is HER bias showing a little bit?

How in the hell is it that FOX's bias is questioned? FOX pushes and promotes right wing policies in numerous ways. Nobody denies it. They never do anything close to that for anything progressive. So what if they don't do it all the time on every program. Hitler liked kids and petted dogs. So what?

I find it hilarious that when the White House points out the obvious--that Fox is not a "news" channel, but rather a reservoir of opinion--the so-called "liberal media" gets their knickers in a twist and wants to defend Fox. Is there anyone at these bastions of objective reporting that doesn't believe what Jarrett is saying, that doesn't think that Fox is bunch of biased right-wing whack-a-doos? Hell, even Shep Smith apologized for it the other day!

Ann Arbor is correct: conservatives have been using the club of "liberal media, liberal media!" to beat up the press and progressives with for years. Now someone is pushing back. More power to them.

Brown is bias big time, her husband was apart of the big Irag snufu and he is presently high ranging at AIPAC. Her husband should be investigated about what he knew about some of the money that disappeared in Iraq while he was there. I think Ms. Brown might need to be careful about using that word.