Chris Wallace says he discovered all the MSM bias after joining Faux.

[Pirate Smile]

I've always wondered what exactly they do to people when they join Faux. Reporters who previously had seemed "normal" become walking, talking RW robots.

"After joining Fox in 2003, "I started to see how much bias there is in the mainstream media that goes unexplained," Wallace said."

Bias in the news?
That's news to Chris Wallace, who will speak Monday at McKendree

BY TERI MADDOX News-Democrat

Fox News host Chris Wallace was influenced by his famous father, CBS veteran Mike Wallace, but not in the way some people might think.

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Among other things, Wallace will address bias in the news. He rejects charges that Fox is a "Republican network" or "conservative network."

After joining Fox in 2003, "I started to see how much bias there is in the mainstream media that goes unexplained," Wallace said.

Wallace, 58, is host of "Fox News Sunday," a Sunday morning public-affairs program. He also contributes to the network's political and election news coverage.

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/14016599.htm

What did David Shuster say after he left Faux?

Bloomington native reports the news
Commentary

by Mike Leonard
Hoosier Times columnist
October 2, 2005

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Shuster will return to Bloomington this week to speak on the topic, "TV News Rediscovers Its Critical Voice: A Look at the Way That Coverage of the Bush Administration Has Changed Since 9/11." The talk will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday in the atrium of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs on the Indiana University campus.
The University of Michigan graduate said the gist of his address will focus on how the changing mood of the country has driven news coverage to be more critical of the administration. "I don't want to say the media always follow the weather vane of public opinion, but in any administration there is an accumulative effect and the particular circumstances of the past five years have driven the media to examine issues more critically than was the case early on," he said.

When asked whether he would have had that opportunity while working at Fox, Shuster laughed, remained silent for a pregnant pause and said, "No. The answer is no."
He went on to recount his six-year tenure at Fox. "At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton)," Shuster said. "I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows.

"With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing," he said.
"Editorially, I had issues with story selection," Shuster went on. "But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn't care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that."

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He acknowledged that likely never would have happened at Fox (getting Tweety's spot), a network that neither his father, Arnold Shuster, nor his mother, Susan Klein, supported. "My parents always wondered why it took me so long to get out of there," he said. "I wonder, too."

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2005/10/02/column.1002-SH-A3_CMK35541.sto

This article led to some back and forth:

David Shuster Battles Fox, Evil


If you're not a regular TVNewser reader, MSNBC's David Shuster has gotten into quite the little pissing match with Fox News' horde of damage control experts.

It all started when Shuster explained to his hometown paper, The Herald-Times, why he left Fox, and, in the process, criticized the network. It wasn't the first time he'd said such things, but this time Fox hit back--hard, as they are prone to do.

Fox execs decided to publicize details out of his confidential HR file.

Now Shuster has hit back again: "If I want to do a hit job on Fox News, everybody at that organization knows that I could tear them apart," he tells TVNewser. "Everybody there also knows that it would be a severe mistake to try to start a battle with me. Roger Ailes, John Moody, and the rest of management knows that I would do far more damage to them than they could ever do to me."

> In classic form, Fox has officially wished him well.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/teapot_tempests/david_shuster_battles_fox_evil_26663.asp

Go ahead and spill it, Shuster.

What exactly did Wallace suddenly learn when he joined Faux?:think:

[cboy4]

1. I love Shuster encouraging FOX not to try and fuck with him!!

Awesome!! :bounce:

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7. I wish he would just say what he wants to say that he knows would

damage them - JUST DO IT!

[MADem]

2. He's had a sip of the Corporate drink, and it tastes good to him

Mango Koolaid and Jim Beam, delicious!!! Will only cost you American jobs and nuclear materials!!!



The bartender in chief makes 'em best!!!!!

It's either that, or he is a late bloomer, and is railing against his daddy's influence while he can still claim Henry Hyde-style "youthful indiscretion."

[mitchum]

3. Chri$ i$ just $hilling for hi$ bo$$e$

[Maddy McCall]

4. K/R for David Shuster. This is a VERY interesting post.

Pirate, excellent job on putting it together--the photos and snippets. :thumbsup:

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5. Thanks, Maddy. I would really love to hear what David could spill.

There would be some special justice for 2006 to be the year Katherine Harris goes down, Tom Delay goes down, the Republican Congress goes down, hopefully Rove gets indicted and goes down, and I'd love for Faux to get it as well.

2007 can be Bush's year - following Congressional Investigations.

A girl can dream, can't she?

[Maddy McCall]

6. We can win in 2006. House and Senate.

I have a better feeling about the Senate than the House, though. We'll be keeping our bedrock Dem representatives, while the Repubs are going to lose some of theirs--DeLay and Frist, and I wouldn't be surprised if Insantorum goes down, too.

Yes, I'd LOVE to hear what Shuster could spill. I anticipate the day when I can go to the physician or the dentist and not have to watch Fox News on the office TV. :D

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8. kick

[Cocoa]

9. he discovered it when he got his first Fox paycheck

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10. There is something "special" that goes along with those Faux

checks.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. You go Shuster!

He's kinda hot. I dig his reporting on the Plame investigation.

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12. They moved him over to the WH this week, although he still is

doing stories for Softballs.

I hope Gregory isn't in trouble.