Leftwing Journalists Attack Fox Cable News

Pajamas Media’s Ron Radosh has quite an interesting piece about the response of liberal commentators to the feud between Fox Cable News and the White House.

Instead of championing free speech and diversity of opinion, Radosh writes:

…well known liberal journalists- instead of defending freedom of the press- are joining the attack on a news network they despise as much as does the Administration.

Writing ^[1] in last week’s Newsweek, [Jacob] Weisberg explained at the start that anyone who watches Fox News knows immediately that Anita Dunn’s charge that Fox has a “right-wing bias” is correct, since Fox always confirms “it with its coverage.”

…Not one word by Weisberg about MSNBC’s equally tilted drift to the precincts of the far Left. Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews is an unabashed liberal whose brand of politics stands at the left end of the Democratic spectrum, and its mainstays in prime time, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow…

Writing in their Nov.9^th issue, [Eric] Alterman praises the Obama Administration for “doing more to maintain the honor of the [journalistic] profession than are many journalists.”  He too agrees that Fox is not a “legitimate” news organization….

[W]riting in The New Yorker in the Nov.2^nd issue, the brilliant academic literary intellectual Louis Menand argues that Fox has cornered “the market on anti-Administration animus,” and he is concerned that the administration’s opposition “is not likely to put a dent in the ratings…….Like Alterman, Menand too says that Fox “is a politically biased organization”……

Radosh concludes with this lament:

[M]any of us are upset that it appears that the administration does, in fact, wish that it could be shut down, and its commentators quieted. Menand knows that the First Amendment is inviolable and must be protected.  Why I am not so certain that were Fox News in fact quieted or suppressed, Jacob Weisberg and Eric Alterman would not be upset?

The link for the entire article is here.