David Brock to Rupert Murdock: You're a lying POS

[CatWoman]

Letter from David Brock to Rupert Murdoch

April 20, 2005

Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Fox Broadcasting Company
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-8799

Dear Mr. Murdoch:

I was intrigued to read your recent statement to World Screen magazine about alleged conservative bias at the Fox News Channel. "We are fair and balanced and we challenge anyone to show Fox News has any bias in it," you said.

My organization, Media Matters for America, has been monitoring the U.S. media, including Fox News, for nearly a year. We try to avoid using the term "bias" in describing news coverage, preferring to focus on the observable content of news stories, rather than try to discern the private attitudes of those who produce them, which amounts to speculation. Still, we can't help noticing a pronounced rightward tilt in your channel's news programs.

Attached you'll find just a few of the many examples that Media Matters has compiled, which demonstrate that conservative voices on Fox far outnumber progressive voices; that Fox anchors, reporters, and ostensibly non-ideological guests routinely inject pro-Republican opinion into "news" programs; and that even Fox's "hard news" anchors and reporters regularly distort the news to further the GOP agenda.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200504200004

[wicket]

1. I love David Brock

:) This is awesome!

[rfranklin]

2. Duh! I didn't realize that!

I always thought Fox was like they said, Fairly Unbalanced! Who woulda known?

[Maraya1969]

3. If FOX news ever becomes balanced

their viewers are going to think they are lying.

[The Donkey]

4. I must admit

That Murdoch's got a lot of hubris and cajones to issue that kind of a challenge . . .

A half-retarded blind monkey could spot Fox bias through a mile of dense jungle.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. If only half of America's fully-retarded, blind humans could!

"A half-retarded blind monkey could spot Fox bias through a mile of dense jungle."

[byronius]

5. Thank you, David Brock, for just saying it out loud for all the rest of us

[byronius]

6. Kick!

[Tactical Progressive]

8. Right-wingers have always hated the news

What they want, what they have always wanted, is someone to feed them ideologically-drenched pablum, and they don't care how dishonest it has to be.

They call whatever they want to hear 'the truth'. Roger Ailes and those like him really believe that, because it's what they want to believe. No amount of facts or blatant slant will ever prove anything to them.