May 30th, 2013
Am I crazy or does this Joe Muto excerpt make Bill O’Reilly out to be a pretty sympathetic figure? I don’t think I’ve ever liked him as much as I did after reading it.
And not only that, but I suspect that Fox News comes across as much less demonic than people on the left want it to be.
I suppose that people who don’t work in TV might be semi-scandalized by some of the stories, but anyone who’s spent ten minutes in any studio–from MTV to NBC–will probably recognize just about every industry archetype. Network bosses closely monitoring content–check. High-ratings talent occasionally chafing against network dictats–check. Lots of back-and-forth between senior management and high-level producers to keep the Big Guys pacified?
This isn’t a “right-wing noise machine”–it’s television.
If the rest of Muto’s book is like this, then An Atheist in the FOXhole might serve as the definitive debunking of the Fox News=Evil Incarnate worldview.
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