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Murrow?!?! Fox News would have labelled him a communist for his treatment of McCarthy. He is one of the origins of where the phrase "liberal media" came from, that great hoax perpetrated by members of society whose worldview doesn't jibe with reality. All major media outlets except NPR are owned and operated by giant corporations. They only have one motivation: Profits. MSNBC has a liberal bias, not because there's a such thing as the liberal media, but because they see a niche market that wasn't being served by Fox or CNN. I'm sure the bosses there were just pissed that Murdoch beat them to the conservative bent, because, based on Fox's viewership, that's obviously a bigger market.
One thing we can agree upon is that there are a lot of Charlatans in the media. When a story on the day time news has to do with the latest cat video that's trending on the internet, we all lose. The news isn't there to serve you or I, they're there to make money by tricking us into believing we're being informed, and its important. I've boycotted TV news for many years, and I'm not going back anytime soon. I'll listen to NPR, but that's the only broadcast media that I can stand. Charlatans, yes, absolutely.
Actually, Fox News would probably NOT do that - unless you are one of the ones that either doesn't watch it, watches it very selectively, or just reads blogs from folks who don't watch is either. They have Bernie Goldberg, who wrote a great book many years ago entitled "Biased" and who was an award winning reporter, who has a lot of respect for Edward R. Murrow. He was actually right to expose the later "tyrannical tirades" of a compulsive "neurotic" (my opinion). What may have started out as a legitimate inquiry turned into the "Spanish Inquisition" so to speak. NPR is owned by its own, many times biased, corporation called the corporation for Public Broadcasting which has been caught seveal times with its own set of "biased slants" and tyrannical tirades. I do listen to NPR, and do enjoy some of the programming, but to say they have been "spotless saints of news reporting" is an overstatement - they have shown their own "bigotry" in the past. The best we can do is to be as circumspect as possible, and make our best effort to be informed by the most objective sources available to us at the time.