Good one in The Nation - The Fox News Effect

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3. Objectivity-

Objectivity is the gold standard in a debate. The news is not a debate and there is no room for debate in journalism. The Journalist's profession is to faithfully report to us the event in question-not put their own spin on it, embellish it, or muddy it. If you're discussing something like Global Warming, Peak Oil, or Santa Claus these are debates and objectivity has its place. The latest Republican scandal on Wall Street is another matter.

It's unfortunate that the media is a ready made forum that's just waiting to be taken and shapen like a lump of clay into a plug-and-play propeganda machine. And after all we've seen it done too many times...Pravda, Al Jezira, etc. Fox News is just the latest.