David Zurawik: Fox News Created Not to Report News, But to ‘Advance an Ideology’

RUSH EXCERPT:

ZURAWIK: “Expresses profound gratitude, that was the news headline on fox news.com. But when we say two Americas, it’s correct. Absolutely correct. But it suggests an equivalency that is really misleading. There aren’t two Americas. The views that CNN and NBC news and CBS give America and the view that you get on fox. They’re not equivalent. One is journalistic information. It’s the institutions, the journalistic platform’s best sense of what’s true at that minute, and it’s intended to give citizens information they can use to make decisions about their life. The information on trump’s platform, which was founded as a political platform by Roger Ailes, it was not founded as a journalistic institution, it’s to promulgate a point of view, an ideology. And now fox has found the great prime-time personification of the current ideology that it’s selling in trump, who is very good on TV, but it will lie to defend that political position. And one of the lies that it tells now, without any facts, is that this caravan is filled with dangerous people and they’re going to storm the border. That lie is okay if you’re a propagandaist or a pr person, because you’re selling the brand, which is Donald Trump. We don’t do that. So they’re not equal views. And citizens need to understand, we are trying to tell them facts and what’s true, they are selling a you a political view, which will include lies if it serves their ends.”