Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines urges other media outlets to take on Roger Ailes and Fox News in a column on The Washington Post Web site that is slated to run Sunday in the print edition.

“One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice," Raines writes. “It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?”

Raines, also a former longtime editorial page editor at the Times, contends that Ailes and Fox are abusing their position in the media to oppose Obama's health care efforts.

“Through clever use of the Fox News Channel and its cadre of raucous commentators, Ailes has overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II,” he adds. “Yet, many members of my profession seem to stand by in silence as Ailes tears up the rulebook that served this country well as we covered the major stories of the past three generations, from the civil rights revolution to Watergate to the Wall Street scandals.”