Via Garance Franke-Ruta at Tapped, I see Robert Greenwald‘s Brave New Films has a new release out about the pornification of Fox News. I’m dubious that Greenwald’s effort to petition for the unbundling of Fox from cable news packages is energy well spent, but the video is good:
There’s plenty of things to criticize about Fox, and pervasive smuttiness standing alone doesn’t rise to the same levels of gross journalistic misconduct as so much else of what Fox does. But it’s the Fox smut–which I use broadly to include not just jiggly blondes but crime coverage, celebrity scandal and the like–juxtaposed with the hard-right political skew of Roger Ailes that makes Fox so repulsive.
