You can safely bet that I will never intentionally watch a moment of Fox and Friends. I hate those morning “news” shows, and anything on Fox is bound to be toxic. I caught some brief segments of it on The Daily Show as it was exposed to well deserved mockery. I laughed heartily when I heard host Steve Doocy wonder aloud whether “we’re beginning to see agenda journalism”.
This is funny for a number of reasons. First of all, Fox News is “agenda journalism” (except without the journalism part). Secondly, Steve Doocy is a clown, not a journalist, and he is woefully unqualified to opine about journalism. I remember him from local TV “news” in DC where he did mildly humorous human interest stories from time to time.
I wonder if Steve knows how idiotic his statement was and had a hard time keeping a straight face. He can’t possibly have been sincere. Perhaps, these things are scripted for the “talent” on Fox and Friends, and he was just doing his job and sticking to the script no matter how inane. After a while working for Fox, you have to lose any sense of journalistic integrity (or any kind of integrity) you might have had (and you can’t have had much).
The “talent” on Fox seems to be comprised of second and third stringers, typical of the right wing in other areas such as intelligentsia and academics and punditry, and they probably could not do as well in other media outlets. In a real news organization, Brit Hume would be a bit player, and Steve Doocy would be doing the weather or cutesie stories like he used to do. It is no wonder then that they compromise themselves daily for the sake of their inflated paychecks.
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