Modbert
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More evidence about News Corp. on News Corp. - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post
And while they complain about the "real news" being ignored, their next segment is...Casey Anthony!
The thrust of this segment on Fox & Friends: The media is piling on the News Corp. phone hacking scandal; there are huge problems in the country, so why all the attention on News of the World? Fox & Friends, of course, is a program on the Fox News Channel, a News Corp. property.
But at least get the logic right! Here, Fox & Friends invites a very sympathetic guest onto the show Bob Dilenschneider of the Dilenschneider Group. This guy says this:
Why are so many people piling on at this point? We know its a hacking scandal. Shouldnt we get beyond it and really deal with the issue of hacking? Citicorp has been hacked into. Bank of America has been hacked into. American Express has been hacked into. Insurance companies have been hacked into. . . . So we have to figure out a way to deal with this hacking problem. Thats what we have to do.
Facile stuff there. If youre only paying cursory attention, Dilenschneider sounds pretty reasonable. Of course, his attempt to suggest equivalency among Citicorp, Bank of America, and American Express falls victim to an inversion: Those entities were the victims of hacking; News Corp. is the alleged perpetrator of hacking. Not a good example of effective scandal suppression.
And while they complain about the "real news" being ignored, their next segment is...Casey Anthony!