Jonah Goldberg on Fox News - conservative columnist and author
" Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network. It often does very good hard journalism, but it gets mixed up with a lot of other stuff, and the Fox-haters are hardly inclined to be discriminating viewers when it comes to separating the wheat from the pure, concentrated evil. " -- Jonah Goldberg, March 16, 2007, American conservative syndicated columnist and author.
" Fox's biggest critics don't appreciate why Fox News exists in the first place. It was created because vast numbers of Americans - including many Democratic voters - saw the mainstream media as too liberal and too elitist. Proof that Fox's creators were right can be found in its enormous ratings success. In response to that success - as well as conservative talk radio's - liberals have become obsessed with creating their own alternative media. The most famous example, Air America, has been a giant failure, and maybe that explains part of the left's mounting frustration with Fox. It just seems so unfair that viewers like Fox but don't really want to watch Al Franken whine about Dick Cheney all day. " -- Jonah Goldberg, March 16, 2007, American conservative syndicated columnist and author.
" This process of media balkanization may well be inevitable. I've long argued that we're heading toward a European-style press where newspapers and networks are more honest about their ideological biases. But in an age where the press and many politicians decry this division, it's worth pointing out what we're getting ourselves into. " -- Jonah Goldberg, March 16, 2007, American conservative syndicated columnist and author.
His wife Gavora was formerly the chief speechwriter for, and a senior policy adviser to, Attorney General John Ashcroft
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