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Why Fox News Is Un-American
Fox News' biased reporting is un-American, and respectable journalists should avoid dealing with the network, writes Jacob Weisberg.
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Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for "evidence" that, when presented, is brushed off and ignored.
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That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.
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Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content. So Why Doesn't He Stop Them?
They'd rather blame someone else for their failure to compete in a changing marketplace. They happily take all the customers Google sends them for free, and then accuse Google of theft. Classy.
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Curley and Murdoch's macho outrage is calculated to be quotable, but it is fake.
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Instead of stealing, I would call this something else: a free service that drives lots of readers to news Web sites that wouldn't get nearly as much traffic, if any at all, if Google didn't link to their sites for free. That may not be as pithy as crying "thief!" But it has the advantage of being true.
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Don't Bail Out Newspapers--Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way
A bit of a rant about how newspapers are dinosaurs that need a healthy dose of business-model-induced evolution to kill them off so something new can replace them.
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As for all the hand-wringing about the great "in-depth" information that only a newspaper can provide, let's be honest: the typical daily newspaper does a lousy job. It tries to provide a little bit of everything—politics, sports, business, celebrity stuff—and as a result it doesn't do anything particularly well. Ask anyone who's an expert in anything—whether it's bicycle racing or brain surgery—what they think when they read a newspaper article about their field. Chances are they cringe, because the material is so dumbed-down, and because it's so clear that whoever wrote the article has no real expertise on this topic.
This News Doesn’t Want to Be Free
A Newsweek article about the Newport Daily News, which started charging an exorbitant rate for its online news and saw a spike in good ol' paper subscriptions.
Newsweek Plans Makeover to Fit a Smaller Audience
Newsweek is planning a big redesign and a change in focus from obligingly covering all the week's big stories to focusing on a few with a more offbeat attitude.
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