Thursday, April 12, 2012

THE FOX MOLE

Apparently an employee from somewhere within the Fox News empire (who clearly does not agree with its agenda/tactics) has decided to report on goings-on from within the organization, for blog Gawker.com

delicious

the inaugural post addresses an article posted by Fox News (still up) entitled "Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs" - confused? I was too.

"The post neatly summed up everything that had been troubling me about my employer: Non sequitur, ad hominem attacks on the president; gleeful race baiting; a willful disregard for facts; and so on. It came close on the heels of the Common controversy, which exhibited a lot of the same ugly traits. (See also: terrorist fist jabs; Fox & Friends madrassa accusations; etc.)

The worst thing about the Hip Hop BBQ incident is that we didn't back away from it. Bill Shine, who is a rather important guy—sort of Roger Ailes' main hatchet man, and the go-between for Ailes and most of the top talent—bafflingly doubled down and defended it. The story still exists on the Fox Nation site, headline and photo montage intact, to this very day.
That was it for me. It wasn't that the one incident was so bad, in and of itself. But it was so galvanizing, and on top of so many other little incidents, that I guess it just finally pushed me over the edge."


wonder how long before this operation gets shut down

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