Every once in awhile someone actually goes on the air to slam Fox News in a no-holds-barred, one-sided beat down. On Saturday afternoon, someone took the initiative and smacked down the corrupt media corporation during an interview on Media Matters Radio.
David Zurawik is a media critic for The Baltimore Sun. He has been known to criticize Fox News from time to time, and this occasion was no different. Zurawik blasted Fox & Friends for running an anti-Obama ad that could have been made by the RNC, and called every employee at the biased network unworthy of being hired by any other media network.
“Nobody wants to hire you, and it’s because you’ve worked at Fox,” Zurawik declared. “You know, you’re working for an outlaw, rogue organization. And it can send me their ratings every goddamn five damn minutes and I still am not impressed with them as a journalistic operation. And I wouldn’t hire anybody who worked at Fox even if I knew them, because I believe they’ve been compromised.”
Here’s the audio:
Zurawik couldn’t be any more correct. Every single employee who works at Fox News is a disgrace to the American principle of a free press. Fox News has zero credibility or integrity, and should be yanked from the airwaves for constantly misleading the public and being the mouthpiece for a political party.
Fox News is so corrupt that it even manipulates it’s own polls to attack Democrats and is so bad at informing the public that people who watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or no news at all have more knowledge of the world and the issues than Fox News viewers. When a satirical news program surpasses you in informing people, you’re no longer a viable news network. When a person can live in the woods for a month without news of any kind and still be more informed than Fox News viewers, that’s pretty damn sad. It’s not just sad, it’s embarrassing. Fox News doesn’t care about evidence or facts or reality, the people there make up their own from scratch. If Fox News were to be shut down immediately, America’s IQ would instantly skyrocket. And maybe making it clear that Fox News is a dead end job will convince prospective journalists to stay away from the network for their own sake or risk becoming a laughingstock amongst the journalistic community and the country.
I think the key here is the fact that Fox News is a political– and more specifically, a propaganda organization.
Setting aside the fact that their slogan, “Fair & Balanced”, is a deliberate “Big Lie” tactic.
Also, you should view all news skeptically– and not just Fox. The great thing about the internet is, if you aren’t just a passive news consumer, you can follow up online and actually check sources!
I listened to Communist Bloc mouthpieces in my youth over shortwave radio, Fox is no different than them. That a large chunk of America has fallen prey to this phenomenon convinces me that mass hysteria based on misinformation isn’t just possible in 1930s Germany, 1960s China, 1970s Cambodia, etc. Anyone with an email address can confirm that, given the tsunami of hateful rhetoric spawned by the likes of Fox, with its sneering delivery and reliance upon either its own surrogates or its earlier reports for verification.
I would rather engage in outbound telemarketing than work for Faux. I, frankly, I have been a whore. I sold blow jobs on the side street outside of my apartment complex about 30 years ago, in order to avoid working for an outbound telemarketer. Faux is just that bad. I think of Faux employees the way a $100.00 dollar girl thinks about $20.00 dollar girls……
Take it to heart, maties….
Zurawik did not go far enough. I wrote over a year ago that informed people should scream bloody murder every time a Fox staffer appears in the guise of a legitimate journalist on any news program such as Meet the Press. Further, there should be pressure put on the White House Press Office and the press corps itself (which is in charge of seating in the briefing room and voted a few years ago to give Fox a front row seat) to remove Fox from the room or at least downgrade their visibility.