It’s time — high time — to take Fox News’s destructive role in America seriously, sulliview writes
By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist March 7 at 10:01 AM Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors.
Fox, you might recall, was a welcoming haven for “birtherism” — the racist lies about President Barack Obama’s birthplace. For years, it has constantly, unfairly and inaccurately bashed Hillary Clinton. This was a mild, reasonable step that recognizes the reality that Fox News shouldn’t be treated as an honest broker of political news. It was not censorship as some bizarrely claimed, merely a decision not to enter into a business relationship.Here, for example, was NBC political reporter Jonathan Allen on Twitter, careful to say this was only opinion:
But for mainstream journalists to suggest that there be no consequences or even recognition is willfully blind — and smacks of an unseemly inside-the-Beltway solidarity.
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