Fox News Staffers Posted Positive Comments on Critical Articles
Fox News has this Internet thing down to a science. A wily science, but a science nonetheless. David Folkenflik, the NPR media reporter, writes in his book Murdoch’s World that Fox News’ public relations staffers used an array of fake accounts to leave pro-Fox News comments on articles that criticized the network.
An excerpt from Folkenflik’s book, via Media Matters:
Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them.
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