When Fox News Is the Story

[Commentary] Fox News. That's it; my In Box will be full later today. Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about intent. And if all that stuff doesn’t slow Carr down and he actually ends up writing something, there might be a large hangover: Phone calls full of rebuke for a dependent clause in the third to the last paragraph, a ritual spanking in the blogs with anonymous quotes that sound very familiar, and -- if I really hit the jackpot -- the specter of his ungainly headshot appearing on one of Fox News’s shows along with some stern copy about what an idiot he is. Part of Carr admires Fox News’s ferocious defense of its guys.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/media/07carr.html?ref=todaysp...
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