Fox photographed in hen house, and damn is it an ugly scene
Check out here for a run down on some memos from Fox News chief John Moody giving orders to the troops as they fight the fair and balanced fight. The memos were released by the makers of Outfoxed a new movie (For objectivity sake, I no longer believe in documentaries that don't involve chimpanzees and long moments of silence.) about Fox News and how it bends the rules of journalism to arrive at it's Fair and Balanced state ("We confirm, you believe").
It reads like a set of stage directions splattered with the chummy rantings of a political cheerleader - the drill seargent's cadences in between browbeatings about preparation. If you read through them all, you won't find much trouble guessing who Moody is likely to vote for. Considering that most attacks by conservatives on the liberal media are based on the presumption that a media controlled by people of X party affiliation is likely to warp the news towards X-party's political perspective, I hope the right wing media critics will take note of Moody's perspective, as he is Fox's News Chief.
But this is almost over the top, like Will Farrel parodying Fox News's bias. At one point, while informing other Fox staff member's that a bomb went off at the hotel where Fox staff were staying in Baghdad and, very reasonably, asking for prayers for the Fox employee's safety, Moody chooses to do a parenthetical to stick it to the ACLU. Is somebody's mind just a tad bit of their professional focus? Colleagues in grave danger and its time to remind people the ACLU supports separation of Church and state? And from a legal stand point, if Moody thinks he's violating Title VII's protections against religious persecution in the workplace, I don't think bashing the ACLU is really a good idea. I don't think suggesting people pray "to whatever God you revere" even remotely creates a hostile environment, but mentioning a major civil rights organization and belittling them seems like a really dumb way to walk in to some trouble. Which is to say nothing about the fact that this is an employer of an actual news organization gratuitously bashing a major civil rights organization.
But there's more Kerry "is a flip-flopper", Bush's policies need to be noted as tactically smart, and of course, the French should be bashed. Read on, it's a really eye-opening collection of memos.
One thing this memo proves though. It's obvious why Outfoxed was able to get so much inside dirt on Fox. If it's this bad, sooner or later a journalist is going to put the story out, even a Fox journalist.
It reads like a set of stage directions splattered with the chummy rantings of a political cheerleader - the drill seargent's cadences in between browbeatings about preparation. If you read through them all, you won't find much trouble guessing who Moody is likely to vote for. Considering that most attacks by conservatives on the liberal media are based on the presumption that a media controlled by people of X party affiliation is likely to warp the news towards X-party's political perspective, I hope the right wing media critics will take note of Moody's perspective, as he is Fox's News Chief.
But this is almost over the top, like Will Farrel parodying Fox News's bias. At one point, while informing other Fox staff member's that a bomb went off at the hotel where Fox staff were staying in Baghdad and, very reasonably, asking for prayers for the Fox employee's safety, Moody chooses to do a parenthetical to stick it to the ACLU. Is somebody's mind just a tad bit of their professional focus? Colleagues in grave danger and its time to remind people the ACLU supports separation of Church and state? And from a legal stand point, if Moody thinks he's violating Title VII's protections against religious persecution in the workplace, I don't think bashing the ACLU is really a good idea. I don't think suggesting people pray "to whatever God you revere" even remotely creates a hostile environment, but mentioning a major civil rights organization and belittling them seems like a really dumb way to walk in to some trouble. Which is to say nothing about the fact that this is an employer of an actual news organization gratuitously bashing a major civil rights organization.
But there's more Kerry "is a flip-flopper", Bush's policies need to be noted as tactically smart, and of course, the French should be bashed. Read on, it's a really eye-opening collection of memos.
One thing this memo proves though. It's obvious why Outfoxed was able to get so much inside dirt on Fox. If it's this bad, sooner or later a journalist is going to put the story out, even a Fox journalist.
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