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4 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Lachlan is just being honest here. Time for a thread about Fox and Dems 👇🏼
Fox led the opposition to Obama 12 years ago, but network execs fought that portrayal. Resisted it. In January 2009 Bill Shine told me they would "cover the news in a fair and balanced way and put on a very good product."
When I wrote about Fox as the "voice of the opposition" for NYT, Fox execs denied it: nyti.ms/3sNM65U
Nowadays Fox doesn't try to deny that it is anti-Democrat. Execs simply claim the rest of the media is anti-Republican. But the best measure of Fox, IMHO, isn't what they tell investors or reporters...
Measure Fox by its journalism. How many bureaus? How many scoops? How many reporters are being hired? How much original reporting is on the air? Sadly all those #'s are low. Lachlan is investing in opinion, not news. Fewer facts, more fights — VOICE of the opposition, indeed.

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