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This past week Fox News celebrated its 10th anniversary on the air. To mark the occasion, Rupert Murdoch--the 75-year-old Fox News founder, News Corp. chairman and CEO and one of the last of the media titans--spoke to TIME managing editor Richard Stengel about bias in the news, what MySpace means to the future of his business, and his most trusted sources of daily information...
...Bias in Camouflage,” editorial...
...Saturday, Fox News will celebrate its 10th anniversary on the air. To mark the occasion Rupert Murdoch - Fox News founder, NewsCorp managing director and last of the media titans - spoke to TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel about bias in the news, what MySpace means to the future of his business and his most trusted sources of daily information...
...Roger Ailes repeatedly describes his news network as a counterweight, on the right, to the rest of the news media. His argument that nearly every other mainstream media outlet slants left is self-serving and mostly wrong. (The MSM really slant toward the institutional, establishmentarian center, which is a bias as dangerous as any other.) But while "fair and balanced" may be propaganda, it doesn't seem to be fooling anyone. Conservatives see Fox as a comfortable haven for their worldview; their opponents pretty much agree. The balance here is that Fox winks just as broadly to both sides...
...first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating an Orientalist cliché here, seizing upon a political or gender bias there. In fact, the book is nothing of the kind. Moss has an acute sense of separateness from the colonial hierarchy of which he was officially a part, stemming, one soon reads, from his Anglo-Indian ethnicity and his sexual orientation (he was gay at a time when...