Eric points to a Salon article that shares my disgust (and that of others) with the Fox Networks REAL goal (and its not reporting the news, but pushing partisan Republican slants on it , in their “No-Spin” Zone. But SPIN is all they have, as evidenced by their fantastic efforts to create spin and vile out of this disaster, sinhce they obviously don’t see fit to devote their “precious resources” to it (ie. Like sending their A1 correspondents to report and “be there” like the obviously more legitimate news outlets do. (NOt that these “more legitimate news outlets” are class news organizations, but at least their number one goal is NOT to turn anything possible into partisan hackery (see below, and O’reilly’s tirade.)
Salon.com News | Fox News gets blown away
“The most comprehensive coverage of the catastrophe last week came from CNN, which reaped the full benefits of its 24/7 news cycle, robust international bureaus and savvy field reporting by hotshot anchor Anderson Cooper.”
Cooper wasn’t alone. CNN has roughly 75 staffers fanned out across the region, including “NewsNight’s” Aaron Brown in Indonesia, and morning host Soledad O’Brien in Thailand. At broadcast networks, “CBS Evening News'” Dan Rather and “NBC Nightly News'” Brian Williams were both sent to the region to anchor broadcasts, as was ABC’s Diane Sawyer, and scores of other celebrity journalists.
But not Fox News. With its competitors dispatching their A-teams to South Asia, Fox’s big guns — O’Reilly, Brit Hume, Tony Snow, Chris Wallace, Greta Van Susteren — all remained safely ensconced inside East Coast studios. That’s because they’re not reporters but Beltway creatures of comfort, who rarely stray beyond the 202 and 212 area codes.