Hillary is finally getting some backup on her vast-right-wing-media charge. The targets are two media giants: Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel. In Rush's case, he's the only political commentator on Armed Forces Radio, and Democrats want the organization partly funded with tax dollars to hire a lefty pundit- or drop him. Murdoch, meanwhile, has committed two sins in liberals' eyes: He owns too much media and has created a "Fox effect" that supposedly forces other networks to bend conservative or lose market share. This week, MoveOn.org and the Clinton-friendly Center for American Progress unleash their attack in a Michael Moore-style documentary called Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. Its point: Fox is too cozy with the GOP, and Murdoch forces his righty bias on his staff.
July 13, 2004 5:13 AM
