Fox Is Biased? Then How Do You Explain These Networks...
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
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Posted: Mar 06, 2019 12:01 AM
CNN and MSNBC were all aglow after Jane Mayer wrote a snide article in The New Yorker titled "The Making of the Fox News White House." The thesis is that Fox News and President Trump are very tightly aligned, starting with the fact that Fox News executive Bill Shine went from Fox to running the White House communications operation.
That's a fair subject for analysis. What quickly becomes hilarity is the notion that it's unprecedented. Never before has there been a friendly relationship between news networks and the White House? Never before have media executives gone into politics, or political operatives gone into the media?
Mayer professed alarm on "Morning Joe," saying that this is "the closest we've ever had to state news in this country. ... We've really never had a whole national network like this that is ... it's incredibly close with this White House."
She said this with a straight face.
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