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The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into paroxysms of rage. When Howell Raines charged that the network had a conservative bias, the members of Journolist discussed whether the federal government should shut the channel down.
I am genuinely scared of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework. Davies, a Brit, frequently argued the United States needed stricter libel laws.
I agree, said Michael Scherer of Time Magazine. Roger Ailes understands that his job is to build a tribal identity, not a news organization. You cant hurt Fox by saying it gets it wrong, if Ailes just uses the criticism to deepen the tribal identity.
Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. Do you really want the political parties/white house picking which media operations are news operations and which are a less respectable hybrid of news and political advocacy?
But Zasloff stuck to his position. I think that they are doing that anyway; they leak to whom they want to for political purposes, he wrote. If this means that some White House reporters dont get a press pass for the press secretarys daily briefing and that this means that they actually have to, you know, do some reporting and analysis instead of repeating press releases, then Ill take that risk.
Read more: Liberal journalists suggest government shut down Fox News | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Supporters of free speech? Hardly.