Thursday, April 11, 2013

Fox News Wants Attention for One Act of Real Journalism








"Beginning last Friday, Fox News Channel's personalities, left and right, engaged in an effort to raise public and media awareness about the case of Jana Winter -- a Fox reporter who could face jail time for protecting a confidential source. As part of that campaign, Fox News contributors implied that the media was ignoring Winter's story because she worked for Fox News. The steady drumbeat eventually produced results and the media's silence on Winter's case is today well and truly broken. That broken silence may be due in part to the severe admonishment Fox News contributors levied on their media colleagues for ignoring the plight of one of their own."* Jana Winter is a Fox reporter who's protecting a source who leaked her confidential information in the Aurora Theater shooting case. This is good. But when the media didn't report on in, Fox News started crying about it on air, which led to some coverage. Is this right? Should the media have spread the story, or were they right not to respect Fox News? Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more from Mediaite: http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-fox-news-successfully-shame-the-media-into-covering-jana-winters-first-amendment-fight/

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