Leaked Fox News Memos Reveal Plan to Further GOP Agenda
Leaked Fox News Memos Reveal Plan to Further GOP
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The Daily Beast on Thursday leaked an internal Fox News memo from the network's Washington managing editor to staff, detailing how to describe the Democrat's public insurance option.
"Please use the term 'government-run health insurance,' or, when brevity is a concern, 'government option,' whenever possible," wrote Sammon, who serves as a conservative commentator when not overseeing news coverage. "When it is necessary to use the term 'public option', use the qualifier 'so-called,' as in 'the so-called public option,'” he continued. "Here's another way to phrase it: 'The public option, which is the government-run plan.'"
Another Fox News executive, senior vice president for news Michael Clemente, thanked Sammon for the memo and told staffers that the third example is the preferred way to describe the plan. A liberal press watchdog, Media Matters, obtained both internal memos and provided them to reporters at the Daily Beast. Media Matters and other liberal groups certainly see the memos as the network helping the Republican cause, but Sammon defended his memo in an interview with the Daily Beast.
He said that 'public option' "is a vague, bland, undescriptive phrase" and denied he was promoting a Republican talking point. "I have no idea what the Republicans were pushing or not," Sammon said. "It's simply an accurate, fair, objective term." Sammon contends that he does not take sides politically but hi books and on-air analysis would suggest otherwise. Several Fox News hosts have even described him as conservative, an staffers tell Media Matters that he slants news coverage coming out of Washington.
And Media Matters isn't through going after Fox News, either. According to the firm's executive VP, the organization is “launching whistleblower@mediamatters.org, an email address where conscientious Fox News employees can anonymously send examples of their employer's complete disregard for journalistic integrity.”
The Daily Beast on Thursday leaked an internal Fox News memo from the network's Washington managing editor to staff, detailing how to describe the Democrat's public insurance option.
"Please use the term 'government-run health insurance,' or, when brevity is a concern, 'government option,' whenever possible," wrote Sammon, who serves as a conservative commentator when not overseeing news coverage. "When it is necessary to use the term 'public option', use the qualifier 'so-called,' as in 'the so-called public option,'” he continued. "Here's another way to phrase it: 'The public option, which is the government-run plan.'"
Another Fox News executive, senior vice president for news Michael Clemente, thanked Sammon for the memo and told staffers that the third example is the preferred way to describe the plan. A liberal press watchdog, Media Matters, obtained both internal memos and provided them to reporters at the Daily Beast. Media Matters and other liberal groups certainly see the memos as the network helping the Republican cause, but Sammon defended his memo in an interview with the Daily Beast.
He said that 'public option' "is a vague, bland, undescriptive phrase" and denied he was promoting a Republican talking point. "I have no idea what the Republicans were pushing or not," Sammon said. "It's simply an accurate, fair, objective term." Sammon contends that he does not take sides politically but hi books and on-air analysis would suggest otherwise. Several Fox News hosts have even described him as conservative, an staffers tell Media Matters that he slants news coverage coming out of Washington.
And Media Matters isn't through going after Fox News, either. According to the firm's executive VP, the organization is “launching whistleblower@mediamatters.org, an email address where conscientious Fox News employees can anonymously send examples of their employer's complete disregard for journalistic integrity.”
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