Fox News Sunday Gets "Exclusive" Interview With Fox News Employee Sarah Palin

[Donnachaidh]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201106030022



Yesterday I wrote about the journalism ethics disaster that Sarah Palin's bus tour represents for Fox News. At the same time that they're confirming (and reconfirming) that Palin's contractual status with the network remains unchanged, Palin is gleefully teasing reporters with hints that she may run while Fox News enthusiastically covers (and hypes) Palin's bus tour and her prospects as a 2012 Republican presidential candidate. And after a full week of this farce we now learn that Palin will be the "exclusive" guest of Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

It's quite the racket they have set up over there: Palin spends a week pretending to run for president while being paid by Fox News, which in turn hypes coverage of her potential 2012 candidacy even as they stress that she's still an employee of the network. At the end of the week, after Palin's non-campaign has been hyped to the point that it's driving actual politicians' campaigns to the margins, Palin grants a ratings-driving "exclusive" interview to her Fox News colleague Chris Wallace.

Palin cashes her paychecks, Fox News gets their ratings -- except for the massive ruptures of ethics and propriety, it's a win-win!

[gratuitous]

1. And nobody will see a conflict of interest

This from the same group of knuckleheads who see taxpayer money spent on abortion practically everywhere they look, but they won't be able to see any ethical problems with a Fox employee featured so prominently on the Fox family of channels while she flirts with a run for national office.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Woo-oo-oo! I'm impressed!!ll!!!

[SugarShack]

3. Definition of rediculous!

:rofl:

[rocktivity]

4. ...According to an anonymous source who spoke anonymously

on the condition of anonymity...

:crazy:
rocktivity

[madrchsod]

5. greta is on the bus...could it be more obvious who`s funding the trip

[rocktivity]

6. Isn't her hubby some sort of GOP VIP?

like Tucker Carlson's dad?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[HipChick]

7. Greta's husband is Palin's top aide...wink..wink!

[HopeHoops]

8. Yeah, wow. That took some leg work and phone calls.

:eyes:

Maybe they can have Man-on-dog Santorum on next to discuss frothy mixes.