[p class="MsoNormal"] [b style=""][a href="vny!://mediamatters.org/items/200610060010"]"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser[/a][o:p][/o:p][/b][/p] [a href="vny!://mediamatters.org/items/200610060010"]The "Most Trusted Name in News"??[/a][o:p][/o:p][/p] [a href="vny!://mediamatters.org/items/200610060010"][span style="text-decoration: none;"]Ten years ago tomorrow, Fox News slithered onto the scene, beginning its assault on logic and reason and fact and decency and, basically, all that is great about America. A maniacal scheme hatched by real-life Bond villain Rupert Murdoch and his Number Two, former Republican strategist Roger Ailes, Fox News' impact on the nation's media cannot be overstated; nor can the effect it has had on our political discourse. [/span][/a][o:p][/o:p][/p] [a href="vny!://mediamatters.org/items/200610060010"][span style="text-decoration: none;"]This is not a column about Fox News. You know about Fox News already. (If you don't, feel free to click here and read some of the 1,473 items we've posted about Fox at last count. Don't have time? Here's the short version: They lie -- a lot. They like George W. Bush -- a lot. They hate Democrats -- a lot.) [/span][/a][o:p][/o:p][/p] [a href="vny!://mediamatters.org/items/200610060010"][span style="text-decoration: none;"]Instead, we focus today on CNN -- or, if you prefer, Fox's Mini-Me.[/span][/a][o:p][/o:p][/p] [span style="" times="" new="" roman="" ;="" color="" black=""][a href="vny!://mediamatters.org/items/200610060010"][b style=""]CLICK HERE to read rest of article[/b][/a][/span][b style=""][span style="" times="" new="" roman="" ;="" color="" black=""].[/span][/b]
