Reliability of Authors

Rupert Murdoch, president of
News Corporation

Any firsthand account is bound to have some sort of inaccuracy, as humans are inherently imperfect when it comes to their own memories. The account of Frederick Douglass' life that we are currently reading in AIS is most likely not the one many who lived with him and "owned" him would give, and it was written for the consideration of abolitionists. No one was hiding the fact that the piece was unbiased, or that it served a purely informative purpose, rather that it was meant to be expositional and persuasive.

There are media outlets that exist today that portray themselves as informational, when in reality they serve more the purpose of Frederick Douglass' narrative. Recently, Fox News' donations to several Republican groups has taken them out of the strictly informational realm, and has given concrete evidence to what many American cable viewers have long suspected.

While I was never a fan of this station, the commentators were free to speak whatever was on their minds, and claim no affiliation to any one political party. Now that their paychecks and massive donations to conservative political organizations are coming from the same source, it is hard to dispute their unbiased view of politics. 

Fox News has left any notion of the informational realm aside, and entered into a purely political arena.