Fox News: ‘Journalism Matters’ Is ‘Anti-Trump Rhetoric’

Washington Post’s Slogan Actually Inspired by a 6th Circuit Judge, Has Nothing to Do With Trump

Fox News is going after The L.A. Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, accusing the three respected newspapers of “media bias” and espousing “anti-Trump rhetoric.” Recently all three adopted slogans and Fox News Tuesday morning aired a segment on them, which the companies are now selling on tee shirts. Fox News says the papers are “cashing in on rhetoric.”

The Washington Post’s “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” is offensive rhetoric to Fox News. The L.A. Times’ slogan, “Journalism Matters,” was also not acceptable to Fox, as was the Chicago Tribune’s “Speaking Truth to power since 1847.”

Fox News, however, is the party guilty of media bias. 

The Washington Post’s slogan, for example, has a long history, as the paper explained last month. 

“The Post decided to come up with a slogan nearly a year ago, long before Trump was the Republican presidential nominee, senior executives said. The paper hasn’t had an official slogan in its 140-year existence,” the Washington Post reported in its Style section.

Post owner Jeff Bezos had used the phrase “at a tech forum at The Post last May.”

“I think a lot of us believe this, that democracy dies in darkness, that certain institutions have a very important role in making sure that there is light,” he said at the time, speaking of his reasons for buying the paper.

Bezos apparently heard the phrase from legendary investigative reporter Bob Woodward, a Post associate editor. Woodward said he referenced it during a presentation at a conference that Bezos attended in 2015 in which Woodward talked about “The Last of the President’s Men,” his most recent book about the Watergate scandal.

But as the Post notes, the phrase actually comes from a 6th Circuit judge who wrote, “Democracy dies in the dark.”

Fox News is doing its best to keep its viewers there.

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