Fox News’ media critics deflect blame from Fox News on Sherrod story
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 25th, 2010 4:43 am by HL
Fox News’ media critics deflect blame from Fox News on Sherrod story
This July 24 edition of Fox News Watch — Fox News’ media watchdog program — whitewashed Fox News’ role in amplifying Andrew Breitbart’s smear of Shirley Sherrod. In fact, Fox News spent a significant amount of time promoting the false claim that Sherrod made racist remarks at an NAACP dinner earlier this year.
Fox News Watch ignores Fox’s role in Sherrod smear
Fox News Watch doesn’t mention Fox News’ role in attacking Sherrod’s character. The July 24 edition of Fox News Watch discussed media coverage of Breitbart’s saying that Sherrod should have been made a “czar” because “she fits in” with the “Maoists” in the Obama administration.
Fox News Watch has a history of ignoring criticism of Fox’s actions
Fox News Watch has repeatedly ignoring criticism of Fox News media figures. The week that Fox cancelled Sean Hannity’s plan to broadcast his show from a tea party event with an admission fee and Bill O’Reilly issued repeated false claims to defend Fox News’ coverage of the health care reform legislation, Fox News Watch quoted former Fox News Watch host Eric Burns (no relation to Media Matters President Eric Burns) saying: “The show was getting to be more and more of a struggle to do fairly. There was a progression of interference to try to make the show more right-wing. I fought very hard against it.”
