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I prefer to think that news organizations should be held to higher standards of honesty and transparency than the makers of soda pop and action figures and aftershave. In fact, I think Fox could fairly be called the news equivalent of an Axe aftershave commercial - titillating and eye-catching but factually fantastic. Perhaps this is an inevitable consequence of making our news organizations into commercial products.
If they want to do what they do and call themselves an 'opinion organization' instead of a 'news organization' that is fine, but they are not sharing the news anymore than Rush Limbaugh is.
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