And Now... The Fake News

It seems that my earlier post about Newsday's color coding of Fox News Channel shows as entertainment and not news has proven true.

Thanks to Six Degrees of Aaron at Daily Kos who hunted down this little tidbit from an interview with former Fox reporter David Shuster in The Herald Times:

"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."

I would suggest that maybe the Fox "reporters" could find future work writing for Saturday Night Live's news segment, but what they write is more sad than funny.

Actually, if you caught this week's season premiere of SNL, it was pretty sad and unfunny as well.