Originally published May 9 2004
Veteran LA Times editor blasts Fox News for parading propaganda as news
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
It's a criticism well deserved by Fox News and its best known
personalities. The news network misled its viewers into believing all
sorts of falsehoods about the war with Iraq: that Weapons of Mass
Destruction were found, that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11
terrorist attacks, and that the U.S. was in Iraq to "help the Iraqi
people." All three are lies, and yet the vast majority of Fox News
viewers believe at least one of them to be true. What's to blame for
the deception? A near complete departure from ethical journalism, says
John S. Carroll, the editor of the LA Times.
Esteemed journalist lectures on ethics L.A. Times Editor John Carroll
spoke about journalism ethics and pseudo-journalism at the Gerlinger
Lounge on Thursday.
The media industry has been infested by the rise of pseudo-journalists
who go against journalism's long tradition to serve the public with
accurate information, Los Angeles Times Editor John S. Carroll told a
packed room in the Gerlinger Lounge on Thursday.
"They regard the audience with a cold cynicism.
In a scathing critique of Fox News and some talk show hosts, such as
Bill O'Reilly, Carroll said they were a "different breed of journalists"
who misled their audience while claiming to inform them.
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