A Lack Of Journalistic Integrity
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Kevin
Real reporters do not work for FOX:
He went on to recount his six-year tenure at Fox. “At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton),” Shuster said. “I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows.
“With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing,” he said.
“Editorially, I had issues with story selection,” Shuster went on. “But the bigger issue was that there wasn’t a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn’t care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that.”
The Bloomington native encountered a markedly different culture when he jumped to NBC/MSNBC in June 2002. “One of the first things that happens is you’re given a 50-page manual of standards and practices … and you immediately sense this is an organization that cares very deeply about journalistic integrity.”
http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm
Comment 10/4/2005
Wacko
Do your reasearch man — that study is a joke:
http://media.eriposte.com/2-9.htm
Comment 10/4/2005
Kevin:
Media bias in itself is a complete waste of time discussing. You say FOX is biased…I say CNN is biased. I find study A…you find study B to refute study A.
In general, I would say mainstream television news media tends to lean right but mainstream radio news tends to lean left.
Bottom line, viewers tend to gravitate to what they agree with. Good viewers will read and watch media that leans different ways.
Showing me one article about one journalist really means nothing and does not add to the discussion, but thanks for the “refuting” article link.
Comment 10/4/2005
Wacko
No, its not. Assertions are not facts. This isn’t he said, she said — the study you pointed out is flawed in its methodology. It came up with the ACLU as a conservative organizations, for crying out loud. There are plenty of solid works that do show the media being favorable to conservaives and unfavorable to liberals. Until you can deomonstrate that those works are wrong, you need to deal with the fact that the media in this country leans right on almost every issue.
The point of the journalist’s article is that it adds more weight to the accumlation of evidence that FOX is simply a propoganda network.
Comment 10/4/2005
I will grant you that Fox leans right, but who cares? Other MSM leans left.
The study you refer to only works to refute the study I referenced. I’d be interested in seeing multiple studies that do not have an agenda and reach a unified conclusion - frankly, this issue has not been settled as you seem to imply. “Facts” as you call them still leave room for interpretation if people cannot agree on how bias is both defined and measured.
Stating, “The media is conservative” really is nothing more than your personal take.
I’ve heard for years the right saying MSM was liberal and lefties arguing MSM was conservative…
What outlets would you consider conservative and which ones would you consider liberal? Which ones would you consiser objective?
Frankly EVERY media outlet has some sort of bias based on the news they *choose* to report. But we have to be careful not to equate news with talk or opinion shows. For instancem the only basic *news* show on Fox, in my opinion, would be the show Shepherd Smith has.
Comment 10/5/2005
Even if the “other MSM” does indeed lean left (something I’m not convinced of, given that most of the “other MSM” is still owned by large corporate conglomerates), they lean nowhere near as far to the left as FOX does to the right. In fact, if you combined the “leftist bias” of the rest of the media, it wouldn’t come close to counteracting the rightist bias of FOX.
For a convenient counterexample, look at All Things Considered or Morning Edition. For all the complaints of “leftist bias” at NPR, nobody has come up with any substantive examples (although I had one troll come up with a huge list of nitpicks, most of which aren’t even really examples of “bias” at all…).
Comment 10/6/2005