I'm too nice to call anybody out. But I'm noticing a number of high profile msm reporters tweeting that this shows that Fox - whatever the outcome of the suit - will always be known as a news org of liars. top to bottom. I would only say that, yeah, a lot of us have ...
2/ been saying this for years, decades, really ... and you've been saying that no, they're a legitimate news organization and we need to stand up for them as journalists etc. etc. No, you really don't. Fox is a thoroughly corrupt organization and has been from the start.
3/It does inadvertently have some number of legitimate journalists operating within it. But that's more happenstance than anything. The bedrock of all journalism is fundamental honesty with readers. That bedrock principle has numerous and sometimes not obvious implications and...
4/ imperatives. But the simplest and most obvious is don't willfully lie to your audience. Over and over and over again. This is a deeply corrupt institution. It doesn't even have anything to do with ideology. You can be a great journalist with a strong conservative or liberal...
5/ viewpoint. You can be just as good and legitimate as journalists who say they bring no viewpoint to the issues they cover. But you can't willfully decisive your audience as a matter of course and practice. Everybody owes it to themselves not to pretend that this is ...
6/ in any way unique to the circumstances of the 2020 election. What is distinct is that their typical practice of institutional deception directly damaged a powerful potential litigant whose business was threatened by concrete and definable damage of a potentially existential...
7/ nature.
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