Memo to the Media: Fox News Is Now the Opposition Party
Media Matters for America, October 13, 2009
By Eric Boehlert
The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players -- not to get bogged down in criticizing the competition -- because those newsroom rules no longer apply. Fox News has exited the journalism community this year. It's a purely political player, and journalists ought to start covering it that way.
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