Fox Mocks NY Times For Doing Serious Foreign Policy Journalism
Written by Remington Shepard
Published
Fox News belittled the plight of North Koreans in its attack of the New York Times for not publishing a front-page story on the conspiracy theories about the Obama administration's response to the consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy criticized the Times for not publishing a story about the bogus hearing regarding the right-wing consulate security myth on today's front-page. According to Doocy, the Times decided an article about “women in North Korea getting shorter skirts” was more important than an article about a right-wing conspiracy theory. Doocy's criticism comes several days after the public editor of the Times called out the paper for not publishing a front-page story about the hearing the day after it happened.
But The Wall Street Journal -- owned by Fox News' parent company, News Corp. -- and the Washington Post did not place stories about the week-old, GOP-led hearing on page one either. In fact, today's page one of the Journal included a story about the connection between hospital payments and patient happiness.
Today's Times front-page article discussed the plight of the average North Korean under the country's new leader Kim Jong Un, a story that contrary to Doocy's claim, is about more than just mini-skirts. North Koreans interviewed for the story said “their lives have gotten harder, despite Mr. Kim's tantalizing pronouncements about boosting people's livelihoods that have fueled outside hopes that the nuclear-armed nation might ease its economically ruinous obsession with military hardware and dabble in Chinese-style market reforms.”
As noted by the Times, these individuals took a risk by talking to the media because “the gulag awaits those who speak to journalists or Christian missionaries.” Apparently, their courage means little to Fox's definition of “newsworthy.”