"The Fox News Memo"

[asthmaticeog]

"So Chris Wallace says Fox News Channel really is fair and balanced. Well, I guess that settles it. We can all go home now. I mean, so what if Wallace's salary as Fox's newest big-name anchor ends with a whole lot of zeroes? So what if he hasn't spent a day in the FNC newsroom yet? "

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"Not once in the 20+ years I had worked in broadcast journalism prior to Fox - including lengthy stays at The Associated Press, CBS Radio and ABC/Good Morning America - did I feel any pressure to toe a management line. But at Fox, if my boss wasn't warning me to 'be careful' how I handled the writing of a special about Ronald Reagan ('You know how Roger feels about him.'), he was telling me how the environmental special I was to produce should lean ('You can give both sides, but make sure the pro-environmentalists don't get the last word.')"

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Not that we didn't already know, but it's nice to have it confirmed by an insider every once in awhile.

Poynter.org, by the way, is a great site to use as a news portal - it's where journalists hang out online.

[Adams Wulff]

1. Why does this sound familiar?

I think I've heard this boilerplate statement from everyone who's jumped to Faux from Greta to Britt.

[jbfam4]

2. If you say it often enough

people might believe it.