David Carr Takes on the Mean Bullies at Fox News PR
While we didn’t love David Carr’s column last week, he scored with Saturday’s today’s story about the public relations strategies of Fox News. Carr’s column comes in part as a result of the channel’s treatment of his colleague Jacques Steinberg after the Timesman published a story about Rupert Murdoch’s company. Carr details the scare tactics deployed by Fox’s public relations department and the fear they instill in reporters. In essence, he tackles a subject that every media scribe knows but that we’ve all been afraid to report:
Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) email messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.
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