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30 Reasons Fox News Is Not Legit

Fox News routinely, and blatantly, breaks the code to which ethical journalists are supposed to aspire.

Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House's public critique of the network was "dangerous to press freedom," and why the press refuses to acknowledge what's so obvious about the cable channel's political pursuits , remains baffling.

The facts regarding Fox News' lack of professionalism seem rather obvious (as I detail below 30 different times). And that ought to be plain for Beltway journalists as well. But whether for reasons having to do with external professional, social, or political pressures, many journalists have opted to pretend ...

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    • Terence Washington Terence Washington
      6 weeks ago


      As long as their exists an audience, a climate if you may, of minds and groups interested, or who wholeheartedly believe the nonsense being espoused by Fox News, the network, and it's proponents, will continue to exist. We have to shape the culture on how news and the truth ought to be delivered.
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      • Geoffrey Ames Geoffrey Ames
        6 weeks ago


        Agreed. My reading of this piece was not so much, "Hey, Fox News is full of it!" as, "Hey, what's with the rest of the media making excuses for Fox News?" Certainly, anyone with more than a couple of functioning synapses can figure out that Fox News has no journalistic integrity, but what of the rest of the "mainstream media" that lacks the integrity to necessary to function as anything but apologists for Fox?
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