FoxNews: sensational
September 5th, 2007 • Journalism, Life, Media
A few days back from the San Francisco holiday, and I still have FoxNews’ television coverage of the Larry Craig story rattling around my head.
Even as a humble Brit, I know that Fox has a reputations for eye-catching news delivery. But although a good number of US media pundits are less than kind to Craig (who, if you’re unaware of the story, is a senator accused of immodest behavior in a gent’s loo), there was an edge to Fox that left an acidic taste.
I caught one round-table group of pundits discussing the senator’s fate. I can’t recall the names, but I can see the glee on their faces: he had been weighed, measured and found wanting - slightly premature, perhaps, given that he had yet to officially climb onto the scales.
To my surprise, I became addicted during the holiday to a half hour of Fox before retiring for the night - it was the same addiction I developed to LBC radio, back in the days when it decided than anything less than 11 was showing a lack of commitment. I’m just not sure I’d want to base my reality on what it told me.
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