Cliff Kincaid has a must-read column on the U.N., Fox News, and Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn over at Accuracy in Media today...check it out:
When the number two man at the U.N., Mark Malloch Brown, complained about Fox News being one of the "loudest detractors" of the world body, he was referring mostly to Eric Shawn, the Fox News correspondent who covers the U.N. and just published his book, "The U.N. Exposed." In fact, Shawn is a moderate fellow who has called for reform, not abolition, of the U.N. Even U.N. boss Kofi Annan claims he supports U.N. "reform." But Malloch Brown may also have been referring to the Fox News Dayside program running an interview on May 31 with Sally McNamara of the American Legislative Exchange Council. She discussed a global IRS and U.N. international taxation schemes-topics that the U.N. and the major media are careful not to talk about. The U.N. knows that the American people, whose nation was born in a tax revolt, might not take kindly to the idea of U.N. bureaucrats taxing them...
...U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. understood that Malloch Brown was really commenting not so much on the influence of Limbaugh and Fox News but on the intelligence of the American people, who rely on Fox News and conservative talk-radio for information that is not generally available through the so-called mainstream media...
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