"Fox News Host Challenges John McCain on Taxes"?On his Sunday news show, Chris Wallace confronted McCain on his flip-flopping on tax cuts for the wealthy, which he had previously opposed and now says we have to do because this will stimulate growth and create jobs.
Then there was the now infamous election night confrontation between Megyn Kelly and Karl Rove over his obstinate refusal to believe Fox News's own number crunchers calling Ohio for Obama. The next day, Rove was again on Fox News, saying Obama only won by "suppressing the vote" and quoting statistics to show that his victory was less significant than in 2008. Kelly interrupted him to say: “You keep saying that, but he won, Karl, he won. . . that's what [people] care about."
And there have been several other instances lately where I was surprised at their news people challenging the kind of statements they used to encourage and amplify.
And Thomas Ricks, being interviewed on FoxNews yesterday, said it right in their face: "I think the emphasis on Benghazi has been extremely political, partly because Fox is operating as the wing of the Republican Party."
Surely this cannot be anything less than a deliberate policy shift coming from high above in their news department, trying to get rid of that image.
Is Fox trying to rehabilitate itself and erase the stain of (1) a Pew Research study that showed that people who watch Fox News have even less accurate information about current news than people who don't watch any news at all; and (2) the beating conservative and their pundits took in predicting it all wrong?
Could be. Stayed tuned.
Ralph
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