| richardhutnik said: The norm is to want to shape something to fit one's perspective on the world and sell it to your target audience in such a way that you end up maintaining your readership. Currently, everything Newscorp is an all out media war against everything Occupy. On page one of the NY Post was a link to an editorial that was entitled "Enough". A day or two before, front page, they ran an article on how Occupy is costing jobs in NYC. The entire thing is an attempt to sway opinion. Newscorp is Rupert Murdock's mouthpiece used to sway public opinion. That is what happens. And then one can say, "go to new media" which ends up being blogosphere rumor mongering, taking one point, playing the telephone game and having it morph into some zero-point "truth". |
The problem is that Newscorp and Fox News are pretty much shorthand for shitty advocacy journalism to the point that the very mention of the words "Fox News" is enough to inspire guffaws in a lot of circles. But at least Newcorp's outlets tend to wear their bias on their sleeves, whereas other outlets like the AP are supposed to represent SERIOUS JOURNALISM but are in reality no better than Fox or the New York Post. There are far too many SERIOUS JOURNALISTS like Dan Balz who play this silly little game where they insist that, while they do have opinions like any other person, they aren't being biased just so long as they don't come right out and tell you what those opinions are.
