Why does it matter so much to you what others have done? The question is if FNC did something wrong. Did they?
Once you/we answer that, we can start to look at broader issue of corporate journalism and how it will continue to shape democracy.
Which is what, in my opinion, should have been the first and only question asked. It doesn’t matter how many other people do it, or to what extent. My answer was based on CNBC and their use of disclosure. Granted, that is based more on the SEC.
From there, we can explore the evils that is mainstream media.
But to repeat, since you missed it: I am proving that few people in this thread care about the supposed bad conduct. They care about slamming NewsCorp. This is proved by showing how quickly the supposed concern vanishes when it’s a reliably liberal entity like NBC or Time Warner.
I have answered that: I don’t know. It depends on the existence of some widely-accepted journalistic standard. I am not aware of one, but that doesn’t mean much, since this isn’t a subject I know a great deal about.
No.
There are two cases: there IS such a standard, or there isn’t.
If there is, then only criticizing Fox for violating it obviously is unfair, and suggests that the critics don’t care about the standard, but on who’s violating it.
If there is not, then only criticizing Fox for their actions obviously is unfair, since it seeks to hold Fox to an imaginary standard that, not incidentally, other reliably liberal organizations are not held to.
Either way, when the criticism is leveled only at Fox, it shows the concern is not the conduct, but the actor.
First, what do you think you proved, that liberals don’t like Fox News?
Second, “reliably liberal entity like NBC or Time Warner.” Seriously, did you actually mean to say that? Is that was this is reduced to? Anyone not as far right as FNC is a “reliably liberal entity.”
Well, this thread is actually about journalistic ethics, did you happen to notice that in the OP?
And what did you pop in here to say? You came in to impute a set of beliefs to someone and then claim that he’s a hypocrite for violating them.
Unfair? So what? As you said, either there is a standard or there isn’t. What does fair have to do with anything?
Or, it is concern about the conduct of that actor. It’s unfortunate that conservatives can’t be bothered to criticize FNC, what with the apparent conflict of interest and the 11th Commandment.
If it helps, think about the charge of perjury or lying under oath. As a lawyer you are probably familiar with how common it happens and the rate at which people are charged with it.
But then, when a liberal President commits perjury, it was suddenly an impeachable offense. Did those involved care about the conduct, or the actor?
In the end, perjury was committed, so “fairness” doesn’t matter, nor does how many other people did it.