Thursday 19 August 2010

Yellow Fox

Fox News to bankroll the GOP

It’s official. Fox News has given up all pretense of being an unbiased news organization. Is this not the real example of Fascism we should be worried about?

The GOP has got right wing media in its pocket

It’s official. Fox News has given up all pretense of being an unbiased news organization. Its parent company, which also owns the Wall Street Journal, has donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.

This may not be the most unethical example of how this ‘news’ organization conducts its business. See here, here, here and here.

But it is unprecedented. Historians will look back on this as the day when the citizens of the U.S. finally lost their battle to the corporations.

Definition of “Yellow Journalism“:

The Sensational Beginnings of Yellow Journalism in 1898, newspapers provided the major source of news in America. At this time, it was common practice for a newspaper to report the editor’s interpretation of the news rather than objective journalism. If the information reported was inaccurate or biased, the American public had little means for verification. With this sort of influence, the newspapers wielded much political power. In order to increase circulation, the publishers of these papers often exploited their position by sponsoring a flamboyant and irresponsible approach to news reporting that became known as “yellow journalism.” Though the term was originally coined to describe the journalistic practices of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst proved himself worthy of the title. Today, it is his name that is synonymous with “yellow journalism.”

Posted by Devona Walker

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