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Fox News isn’t the problem, it’s the media’s obsession with Fox News

  • Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
A security guard looks out of the the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, April 2017AP/Mary Altaffer

The American press seems fixated on Fox News and its owners, the Murdoch family.

Recently, The New York Times purported to explain “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World.” This followed The New...

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