Josh Silver: FCC Endorses Junk News, Calls Fox's TMZ, and 700 Club 'Bona fide Newscasts'
May 6, 2008 - Hard-hitting journalism is nearing extinction on television, and the Federal Communications Commission just threw another shovel-full of dirt on its grave when it recently ruled that Rupert Murdoch's TMZ and Pat Robertson's 700 Club meet the test for "a bona fide newscast." Bona fide newscast? You tell me:
Here's why the FCC decision matters. According to a Pew study, sixty percent of Americans…