The Fox News Two-Step
If you're a Fox News consumer and believe sources like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, even The Wall Street Journal, are shady and unreli able: First, I'm sorry, you're just wrong. Those organizations are consistently doing the best journalism on the planet, the most ethically. In fact, in these times when good journalists are under attack and receiving death threats for just doing their jobs, those organizations are going overboard, triple- and quadruple-sourcing stories and fact-checking exhaustively. Second, here's how Fox has deceived you into believing that those sources are unreliable and that some of their most important stories have been false, in case you're interested. Behold, the Fox News Two-step: When a story unfolds that's uncomfortable for the right, 1) Fox News reports quotes and reactions from right-wing stars demeaning and denying the story, and debasing the journalists who broke it. 2) That's it. They do ...