Fox News & Wikipedia: Unfair And Unbalanced
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It should come as no surprise that the partisan Republican hacks at Fox News want us to believe they are impartial — “We report, you decide.” What. Ever.
What’s interesting is how much time and effort they spend scrubbing negative references to themselves out of Wikipedia AND inserting all sorts of negative references to their political enemies into the open-source encyclopedia.
The most interesting thing of all? With newly-available tools, you can actually see what Fox News has done, line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph.
Why should you care? Because Fox News is the official house organ of the modern Republican party. Tony Snow is the White House press secretary, Bush and Cheney only do interviews with the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Neal Cavuto, and Rudy Giuliani and Roger Ailes are BFFs.
Fair and balanced? Pravda never had it so good. You remember Pravda, right?
Pravda (Russian: Правда, “The Truth”) was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991…The offices of the newspaper were transferred to Moscow on March 3, 1918 when the Soviet capital was moved there. Pravda became an official publication, or “organ”, of the Soviet Communist Party. Pravda became the conduit for announcing official policy and policy changes and would remain so until 1991. Subscription to Pravda was mandatory for state run companies, the armed services and other organizations until 1989.
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