Media Matters: Fox News' ever-expanding ethics nightmare

April 23, 2010 

http://mediamatters.org/columns/201004230046

 

Ben Dimiero, Jeremy Holden, & Simon Maloy

Another week, another handful of ethical scandals that should permanently sink Fox's claim of being a legitimate news organization. 

To recap: Last week, they gave us twin scandals starring Fox News stalwarts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. "Furious" Fox News execs pulled Sean Hannity from his planned show filming/fundraiser for the Cincinnati Tea Party after numerous news veterans and watchdogs called foul. 

O'Reilly spent last week reminding us of his willful ignorance by repeatedly falsely asserting that "no one" on Fox promoted the falsehood that "jail time" was a penalty for not buying insurance under the health care reform bill. He was outrageously wrong.

Though Howard Kurtz reported that Fox plans to "keep a tighter rein on Hannity and others" in the wake of the tea party scandal, we remain skeptical. Fox has a long history of promising change in the wake of damaging ethics scandals, then failing to deliver on those promises.

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Ben Dimiero, Jeremy Holden, & Simon Maloy

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