Why mistrust Fox?
Perhaps you are familiar with an old saying: Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I’ve found that maxim valuable as I wade through the recent hand-wringing and recrimination among journalists and their critics over the fact that most mainstream media were slow to pick up on the story of corruption at ACORN. New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt (a former colleague) and Andrew Alexander, his counterpart at The Washington Post, are among those who have asked whether that laggard performance reflects an unfortunate deafness to conservative media. As one of my readers put it, “There is a lot wrong with ACORN, and Fox was the only channel talking about it.” I might join this pity party if I thought Fox a credible news source. I do not. Consider just a few of the network’s and its hosts’ recent lowlights: ► June 3 – In a column Bill O’Reilly says he never called murdered abortion doctor George Tiller “a baby killer.” This is wrong. PolitiFact.com has documented 24 instances just since 200
