They blasted the NY Times, who at least have an ombudsman. Does Fox? (It's a joke to ask, right?). Fox's editors should have known that the information they were handling could have compromised ongoing operations.
Ellen at News Hounds is on the trail, with a Roger-and-Me smackdown of the spin-out zone:
Most of the posts linked below include video.
President Bush asks and FOX News delivers: ...
FOX News glossed over Rep. Heather Wilson's role In Iglesias/U.S.Attorney firing scandal: ...
FOX News whitewashed reports of Patriot Act Abuse: ...
FOX News tossed out a criminal charge against Tom DeLay: ..
Walter Reed scandal downplayed: ...
Megyn Kelly (then Kendall, before her divorce and rumors of her extra-marital affair with the married Brit Hume became public) ...
As the person who followed FOX Report with Shepard Smith for three months during the preparation of Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism, I can attest that these samples are entirely representative.
That's all before the whopper:
After it became clear that Bush-43 had authorized torture and participated in to, as some report he liked/likes to talk to to CIA operatives, FOX launched their campaign to 'soften the beaches' on torture, up to and including their 'ticking bomb' question, which made it all the way to a GOP Presidential debate litmus test question.
The general public's disapproval of torture ran well up into the 80% or higher range, so you can see why they had to do it.
With 60% or higher approval rating for the United Nations, one can also understand why they had to attack the U.N., just before going to war against Saddam.
Finally, sympathy toward the plight of immigrants who are hard working, but still illegally in the country, was running upwards of 60%, so they had to turn "illegals" into 'diseased immigrants' and 'felons' seeking amnesty to ratchet those numbers right down.
