[h/t: USS Neverdock]

Fox’s Sandstorm, a column by William Raspberry in the Washington Post once again shows just how out of touch, or how much in denial the MSM is.

The in-your-face right-wing partisanship that marks Fox News Channel’s news broadcasts is having two dangerous effects.

The first is that the popularity of the approach — Fox is clobbering its direct competition (CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, etc.) — leads other cable broadcasters to mimic it, which in turn debases the quality of the news available to that segment of the audience.

The second, far more dangerous, effect is that it threatens to destroy public confidence in all news.
(…)
For the Foxidation process to work, it isn’t necessary to convince Americans that the verbal ruffians who give FNC its crackle have a corner on the truth — only that all of us in the news business are grinding our partisan axes all the time and that none of us deserves to be taken seriously as seekers of truth.
(…)
Still, I’m worried that what is happening in that sandbox may wind up polluting the entire schoolyard. And no one, including the big kids of traditional journalism, seems sure what to do about it.

Well, Big Bill, we know what to do about it. We watch FOXNews, we listen to talk radio, we read the Washington TIMES! So there!!!

BTW — Marc at Neverdock also knows the score.

These are just a few examples. Everyday MSM lie, coverup and fail to accurately report the news. Along comes Fox and starts telling the truth. Since when did telling the truth become dangerous? When it exposed the lying left wing media.

Rasberry, your lying left wing buddies in the press are far more dangerous than Fox.

(db)

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