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Not only are most of their commentators infomercial presenters for Romney, they are also hip deep in corporate edu-business. Read on!
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/fox-wont-disclose-news-corp-testing-contracts-a/189993
In 89 segments between September 10 and 16, Fox News reported on the Chicago Teachers Union's strike without disclosing its financial ties to the educational technology company administering the standardized tests with which the union takes issue.
Fox News parent company News Corp. acquired a 90-percent stake in Wireless Generation in 2010. Last May, the company agreed to provide Early Mathematics Assessment Services and Early Literacy Assessment Services to Chicago Public Schools. These contracts total $4.7 million. A central reason the Chicago Teachers Union decided to strike is their objection to the school district's call for heavily weighing such standardized testing to ultimately determine teacher pay and layoffs.
But Fox News anchors and reporters never once disclosed its parent company's ties to Wireless Generation even as the network routinely criticized the strike and the Chicago Teachers Union.
The programs that covered the story most often:Fox & Friends (including the First, Saturday, and Sunday editions) with 31 segments over the entire week; America's News Headquarters aired 12 segments this last weekend alone; America Live was next with 7 segments; and Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Special Report followed with 6 segments each. Not one segment disclosed News Corp.'s business relationship with Wireless Generation despite repeated mentions and discussions of the teacher evaluations at the heart of the strike.
Well we knew they were shameless, but still. This is bottom-feeding the shameless-barrel.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)it's clear conflict of interest. Bilking money from people under false pretense and ordering your minions to slander those who are your political opponents is treading the line.
progressoid
(49,827 posts)Frankly I don't expect them to disclose their conflicts of interest. We all (except for some of troglodytes) know what their agenda is.
I want to know what school district thinks it's a good idea to have a Murdock company in charge of testing at public schools?
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Fox get's it's 4.7 million whether the school district bases everything on them or dumps all the results in the trash. Yes, they should have mentioned it, but I don't think it's as much of an issue as you seem to be implying.
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)Who put that deal together? If it's a contract, something was signed, right?