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Article: Watching Fox News: Don't have a cow, man
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2008
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ALTHOUGH it's easy to dismiss the Fox News Channel as the
broadcast wing of the Republican Party, critics continually turn a
blind eye to a basic virtue of FNC: It's really pretty entertaining.
As is almost everything that Fox does in its many television
incarnations, particularly the Fox Broadcasting Company and FX, the
cable service.
If you look at Fox News as part of that corporate Murdochean
empire, the prevalent aesthetic isn't conservatism, it's an in-your-
face, irreverent attitude that can swing as far left ("The
Simpsons") as it does right ("24"). The guiding principle of the Fox
Broadcasting Network since the beginning has been to thumb its nose
at the rest of the media while ...