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The fact is, daily life at FNC [Fox News Channel] is all about management politics. I say this having served six years there -- as producer of the media criticism show, News Watch, as a writer/producer of specials and (for the last year of my stay) as a newsroom copy editor. Not once in the 20+ years I had worked in broadcast journalism prior to Fox -- including lengthy stays at The Associated Press, CBS Radio and ABC/Good Morning America -- did I feel any pressure to toe a management line. But at Fox, if my boss wasn't warning me to "be careful" how I handled the writing of a special about Ronald Reagan ("You know how Roger [Fox News Chairman Ailes] feels about him."), he was telling me how the environmental special I was to produce should lean ("You can give both sides, but make sure the pro-environmentalists don't get the last word.")
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a revealing letter to Romenesko.
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In the interest of being fair and balanced, Fox News's reply:
"Mr. Reina's premise about "the memo" is unfounded. People are proud to work here. They are proud of the product we produce and understand our daily and future goals. Among many, many others, Mr. Reina's memo has a glaring omission, in that Fox News Channel has a very low turnover rate and very high morale. In other words, people who work here WANT to work here."
She fails to address Reina's most damning allegations, however.
Posted by: nedlog | October 31, 2003 5:23 PM
Pride in the produced product. Quite a bold statement!
Posted by: sudama | October 31, 2003 6:55 PM
That news is a product is a reason for concern.
Posted by: d fresh | November 1, 2003 9:39 AM