Wow. Sounds like Fox is a teensy bit
defensive here...
In a statement handed out at the press conference by an unidentified woman, Fox News declared, "The illegal copyright infringement actions of moveon.org in cooperation with The New York Times, including 'cutting a deal' not to give Fox News Channel adequate time to react, is unprecedented." The Times, it said, in "taking orders from" a George Soros-funded Web site, "corrupts the journalistic process. This is the real story." It described Soros as "a left-wing billionaire currency speculator who funds many liberal efforts."
"Any news organization that believes this story is big and Fox News Channel is a problem, will be challenged by Fox News Channel in the following manner: If they will put out 100% of their editorial directions and internal memos, Fox News Channel will publish 100% of our editorial directions and internal memos, and let the public decide who is fair. This includes any legitimate cable news network, broadcast network, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post."
[And the Washington Times? And the Wall Street Journal? -Hoff]
The Fox statement also attempted a takedown of several ex-Fox employees, labeled by the filmmakers as "whistleblowers," who appeared in the film (and at the press conference), calling them "hardly worth addressing." It referred to them as "low level" employees, adding that some left due to incompetence, "and none expressed concern about editorial policy while employees."
It referred to one the employee's "personnel file," revealing that "he was considered to be a weak field correspondent and could not do live shots."
Ouch. Hell hath no fury as a wingnut news flack scorned.
