Fox News VP: "Diversity [Of Perspectives And Opinions] Not Necessarily A Strength"...

This Wanker is definitely in La La Land, another moron, what can you expect from that establishment anyway.

Alternet.com Rory O'Connor April 24, 2006 at 10:32 PM
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"If your readers would take a few seconds to consider the things they enjoy by virtue of being in this country, the depth of their anger would dissipate," says John Moody. "We're not arguing over whether democracy is being sacrificed here, we're arguing over the path we're going to take the country on -- and rightly so!"

Moody, a veteran of United Press International and Time, is now senior vice president, news editorial, at FOX News. During a provocative, alternately aggressive and defensive, sometimes sincere and sometimes sarcastic interview this week, Moody did his best to answer questions about issues ranging from bias at FOX and other news organizations to mainstream media reporting on the war in Iraq, and from the cable news obsession with "dead white women" to controversial Fox commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. Ultimately, like Jonathan Klein, his peer at rival cable news network CNN [interview here], Moody seemed genuinely puzzled at the extent and depth of the anger and discontent expressed by the questions, and contended that they "all tend to be similar in voicing discontent."

"Do you think American media, generally speaking, is biased," I asked first. "If so, how so -- too liberal? too conservative? too corporate? too careerist? too driven by ratings and celebrity?"

"I think, first of all, that Americans should be proud of their news media, in general," Moody began. "Everyone likes to complain -- about the government, the media, and so on. But stop, for goodness' sake, and look at the rest of the world. We are a democracy -- however imperfect -- with great blessings and wealth. Most of the world envies us and our news media, because it is un-intimidated and -- I'm going to make up a word here --- largely un-intimidatable. That's part of our patrimony.

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