"Is Fox News Fair?"
Journal article
By: Neil Hickey
Date: 1998
Source: Hickey, Neil. "Is Fox News Fair?" Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1998, 30–32, 35.
About the Author: Neil Hickey is an editor for the Columbia Journalism Review. CJR covers day-to-day media in America. It includes reports on economic, political, technological, social, and legal issues in the media.
Introduction
When Fox News began broadcasting in October 1996, it did not seem that there was a need for one more news channel. Yet Fox News helped to define what a news network could be in an already-crowded market; it also carved out its own place.
The "big three" news networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, all provided versions of themselves to the public. In broadcasts of 30 minutes, the news of the nation and the globe was dispensed to the audience. In the competitive market, news had to...
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